{"id":11048,"date":"2010-04-20T14:40:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T14:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=11048"},"modified":"2016-11-14T14:30:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T14:30:36","slug":"azerbaijan-authorities-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=11048","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan: Authorities clamp down on protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 14, \u00a047 members of the opposition Musavat (Equality) Party <a title=\"IFEX: Authorities clamp down on protesters in first election-related demonstration\" href=\"http:\/\/ifex.org\/azerbaijan\/2010\/04\/15\/election_demonstration\/\" target=\"_blank\">were detained for participating in a demonstration<\/a> in Baku, in the first political rally ahead of Azerbaijan\u2019s parliamentary elections in November 2010. \u00a0Demonstrators carried placards calling for freedom of speech, association and assembly, and one called for President Ilham Aliyev to resign. Article 19 has <a title=\"A19: Azerbaijan: Authorities Clamp Down on Protesters in First Election-Related Demonstration\" href=\"http:\/\/www.article19.org\/pdfs\/press\/azerbaijan-authorities-clamp-down-on-protesters-in-first-election-related-de.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">called on the government<\/a> to ensure that international standards are upheld in the conduct of the elections.\u00a0<em>\u201c<\/em>Journalists must also be able to exercise their profession unimpeded and must have the freedom to report on political events\u201d, said Dr Agn\u00e8s Callamard, Article 19&#8217;s executive director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 14, \u00a047 members of the opposition Musavat (Equality) Party were detained for participating in a demonstration in Baku, in the first political rally ahead of Azerbaijan\u2019s parliamentary elections in November 2010. \u00a0Demonstrators carried placards calling for freedom of speech, association and assembly, and one called for President Ilham Aliyev to resign. Article 19 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[8867,584,585,1],"tags":[382,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11048"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79840,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11048\/revisions\/79840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}