Index on Censorship » Sakhavan Soltanli http://www.indexoncensorship.org for free expression Fri, 17 May 2013 16:22:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 for free expression Index on Censorship no for free expression Index on Censorship » Sakhavan Soltanli http://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/Free_Speech_Bites_Logo.jpg http://www.indexoncensorship.org Azerbaijan: Crackdown on anti-government activists http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/03/azerbaijan-crackdown-on-anti-government-activists-and-ngos/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/03/azerbaijan-crackdown-on-anti-government-activists-and-ngos/#comments Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:36:34 +0000 Mohammad Fakhar Zaman http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=21172 Two youth opposition activists, Sakhavan Soltanli and Rashadat Akhundov, were detained in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku on Tuesday. On 4 March, youth activist and former parliamentary candidate, Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, was detained and given a pre-trial detention of one month after he advertised a nationwide anti-government protest on Facebook. On the same day three NGOs, known for [...]

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]]> detained in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku on Tuesday. On 4 March, youth activist and former parliamentary candidate, Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, was detained and given a pre-trial detention of one month after he advertised a nationwide anti-government protest on Facebook. On the same day three NGOs, known for encouraging freedom of expression, were evicted from their offices by police without being given any reason.

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