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Index on Censorship, English PEN, Article 19 and Amnesty International UK held a demonstration last Thursday at the Azerbaijan embassy in London in support of jailed journalist Eynulla Fatullayev. Amnesty kindly made a video. Watch it below.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7ScV4oDNJU
Rights campaigners in London protest against continued persecution of jailed editor
Freedom of expression campaigners will protest on Thursday 3 June outside the Azerbaijani embassy in London, calling for an end to the persecution of jailed journalist Eynulla Fatullayev.
Amnesty International UK, ARTICLE 19, English PEN and Index on Censorship will also hand in a letter to the embassy — signed by key literary figures including Monica Ali, Alan Ayckbourn, William Boyd, and Philip Pullman — calling for Fatullayev’s immediate release and for new politically-motivated charges against him to be dropped.
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