{"id":375,"date":"2011-03-29T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnews.harouta.sg-host.com\/2011\/03\/29\/osce-media-freedom-representative-condemns-attack-on-azerbaijani-journalist\/"},"modified":"2022-02-14T15:50:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T11:50:30","slug":"osce-media-freedom-representative-condemns-attack-on-azerbaijani-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jff.am\/en\/2011\/03\/29\/osce-media-freedom-representative-condemns-attack-on-azerbaijani-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"OSCE Media Freedom Representative Condemns Attack On Azerbaijani Journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovi\u0107, condemned today a recent attack on a newspaperman in Azerbaijan and called upon the government to take urgent action to curtail violence against journalists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Azerbaijan&#8217;s authorities must take pro-active measures to prevent violence against the media,&#8221; Mijatovi\u0107 said. &#8220;Ensuring a safe and free environment for journalists is a key OSCE commitment and I must regretfully state that the government of Azerbaijan has so far failed to meet this requirement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the night of 26 March six masked individuals abducted Seymur Haziyev, a reporter with the independent Azadliq newspaper, in a village near Baku. They reportedly put a sack on his head, beat him up and threatened him with worse violence if he continued to write critically about the government policies.<\/p>\n<p>One of Azerbaijan&#8217;s main printed media outlets, Azadliq has been the target of repeated attacks and other forms of intimidation in the past, including imprisonment of staffers and contributors. Haziyev himself has been threatened and physically assaulted several times in recent years.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovi\u0107, condemned today a recent attack on a newspaperman in Azerbaijan and called upon the government to take urgent action to curtail violence against journalists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Azerbaijan&#8217;s authorities must take pro-active measures to prevent violence against the media,&#8221; Mijatovi\u0107 said. &#8220;Ensuring a safe and free environment for journalists is a key OSCE commitment and I must regretfully state that the government of Azerbaijan has so far failed to meet this requirement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the night of 26 March six masked individuals abducted Seymur Haziyev, a reporter with the independent Azadliq newspaper, in a village near Baku. They reportedly put a sack on his head, beat him up and threatened him with worse violence if he continued to write critically about the government policies.<\/p>\n<p>One of Azerbaijan&#8217;s main printed media outlets, Azadliq has been the target of repeated attacks and other forms of intimidation in the past, including imprisonment of staffers and contributors. Haziyev himself has been threatened and physically assaulted several times in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This new attack on an independent media outlet is inadmissible and the Azerbaijani authorities must condemn it publicly. They must also do their utmost so that the perpetrators and masterminds of this and previous cases of violence against journalists \u2013 including the 2005 murder of a newspaper editor Elmar Huseynov &#8211; are brought to justice,&#8221; Mijatovi\u0107 stressed.<span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.osce.org\/fom\/76228\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.osce.org\/fom\/76228<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovi\u0107, condemned today a recent attack on a newspaperman in Azerbaijan and called upon the government to take urgent action to curtail violence against journalists. &#8220;Azerbaijan&#8217;s authorities must take pro-active measures to prevent violence against the media,&#8221; Mijatovi\u0107 said. &#8220;Ensuring a safe and free environment for&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jff.am\/en\/2011\/03\/29\/osce-media-freedom-representative-condemns-attack-on-azerbaijani-journalist\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OSCE Media Freedom Representative Condemns Attack On Azerbaijani Journalist<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4483],"tags":[],"aboutus":[],"home":[],"authors":[],"position":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>OSCE Media Freedom Representative Condemns Attack On Azerbaijani Journalist - jff.am<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jff.am\/en\/2011\/03\/29\/osce-media-freedom-representative-condemns-attack-on-azerbaijani-journalist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"OSCE Media Freedom Representative Condemns Attack On Azerbaijani Journalist - jff.am\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovi\u0107, condemned today a recent attack on a newspaperman in Azerbaijan and called upon the government to take urgent action to curtail violence against journalists. &#8220;Azerbaijan&#8217;s authorities must take pro-active measures to prevent violence against the media,&#8221; 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