Azerbaijan - Opposition daily throttled financially by lawsuits and dirty tricks

Reporters without borders

After a run-up marked by flagrant violations of political pluralism and freedom of information, President Ilham Aliyev's reelection by an overwhelming majority on 10 October 2013, in a poll that the OSCE considered “seriously flawed”, has been followed by new crackdown on the media. The daily newspaper Azadliq, one of the few remaining opposition news outlets, is now in danger of succumbing to efforts to throttle it financially. On the one hand, a district court in the capital, Baku, froze (...)

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