Azerbaijan - Stepping up harassment of media, Nakhchivan expels Azerbaijani reporter

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the unacceptable escalation in harassment of the media by the authorities in Nakhchivan, an autonomous Azerbaijani exclave between Armenia and Iran, especially last week's expulsion of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty reporter Yafez Hasanov. Hasanov was abducted on 31 August by three unidentified men in plain-clothes using the kind of car that government security officials normally drive. They drove him to the Iranian border and told him to return (...)

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