Azerbaijan - Two-month detention order for two journalists arrested in northern town

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders condemns the two-month pre-trial detention order that a court in the Baku district of Nasimi issued on 22 March for two of the four journalists arrested in the northern town of Quba on 13 March over a YouTube video that triggered major protests and clashes with the police in Quba (see below). The two journalists – Vugar Gonagov, the executive director of Khayal TV, and Zaur Guliyev, the station's editor in chief – are facing up to three years in prison on charges of (...)

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