Index on Censorship » Tolishi Sado 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 » Tolishi Sado http://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/Free_Speech_Bites_Logo.jpg http://www.indexoncensorship.org Azerbaijani Talysh journalist detained http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/06/azerbaijani-talysh-journalist-detained/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/06/azerbaijani-talysh-journalist-detained/#comments Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:37:19 +0000 Sara Yasin http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=37863 An Azerbaijani  journalist was arrested yesterday on charges of illegal possession of drugs. Hilal Mamedov, a member of the Talysh ethnic minority, is the editor-in-chief of Talysh language newspaper Tolishi Sado (Voice of Talysh). A Baku court announced a three-month pretrial detention for the journalist, who was kidnapped and detained without explanation according to family members. The arrest [...]

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]]> Azerbaijani  journalist was arrested yesterday on charges of illegal possession of drugs. Hilal Mamedov, a member of the Talysh ethnic minority, is the editor-in-chief of Talysh language newspaper Tolishi Sado (Voice of Talysh). A Baku court announced a three-month pretrial detention for the journalist, who was kidnapped and detained without explanation according to family members. The arrest comes shortly after the journalist made a popular anti-Putin video.

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