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PAST EVENT: Free expression under attack: Azerbaijan’s deteriorating media environment

Index on Censorship, together with ARTICLE 19, Media Diversity Institute, and Open Society Foundations, will explore the freedom of expression situation ahead of Azerbaijan‘s 7 November elections. This event will mark the launch of their joint report following their recent international freedom of expression mission to Azerbaijan.

Norwegian film-maker Erling Borgen’s documentary The Prisoner from Azerbaijan will be screened, followed by a discussion with Index on Censorship’s Natasha Schmidt, ARTICLE 19’s Rebecca Vincent, and Open Society Foundations’ Stewart Chisholm on the findings of the international mission in the context of Azerbaijan’s pre-elections environment.

When: 6:30pm, Thursday, 28 October 2010

Where: Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, London, EC1R 3GA

Ticket: Free. For more details, please contact Natasha Schmidt
[email protected] or 0207 324 2525

Azerbaijan: Free expression under attack

Observers including Index on Censorship’s Natasha Schmidt report on the country’s climate of fear

Ahead of Azerbaijan’s upcoming parliamentary elections, nine organisations, including Index on Censorship, are launching a new report titled Free Expression under Attack: Azerbaijan’s Deteriorating Media Environment. The report findings come out of a joint freedom of expression mission to the country in September 2010 and highlight the Azerbaijani government’s failure to comply with its international commitments to promote and protect freedom of expression. (more…)

Azerbaijan: Authorities refuse to investigate attack on journalists

Security guards who attacked two journalists may go unpunished after authorities refused to investigate the case. Elmin Badalov and Anar Gerayly were beaten by a wealthy businessman’s private security guards on 28 July.

The two newspaper reporters had been taking photos of luxury homes in the Baku region of Shuvlan, and were then held by the guards for three hours. Police acknowledge that Badalov and Gerayly sustained considerable bruising, but they claim that a medical examination shows this could have been caused by “a serious fall”. Authorities assured journalists last year that the ban on taking photos without consent would not be used against the media.