{"id":33608,"date":"2012-03-02T13:32:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T13:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=33608"},"modified":"2016-11-14T12:51:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T12:51:02","slug":"azerbaijan-reporters-injured-while-covering-clashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=33608","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan: Reporters injured while covering clashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least two journalists have been injured whilst <a title=\"CPJ: Reporters injured while covering clashes in Azerbaijan\" href=\"http:\/\/cpj.org\/2012\/03\/reporters-injured-while-covering-clashes-in-azerba.php\" target=\"_blank\">covering violent clashes<\/a> between police and residents in <a title=\"Index on Censorship : Azerbaijan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Azerbaijan\" target=\"_blank\">Azerbaijan<\/a>. During protests calling for the resignation of a local government, Index <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Index Freedom of Expression Awards 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/awards-2012-nominations\/\" target=\"_blank\">awards nominee<\/a> Idrak Abbasov, from the Institute for War &amp; Peace suffered an arm injury as stones were thrown at him, whilst\u00a0Rashid Aliyev, a reporter for the Internet-based Objektiv-TV was hit in the back of the head. During the protests, demonstrators set fire\u00a0to government buildings and the governor&#8217;s house. Five other journalists reportedly suffered the effects of tear gas, after authorities sent riot police to quell the protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Abbasov said: &#8220;Me and my colleague Rashad Aliyev were at the center of the developments. I was taking photographs and Rashad was filming. I couldn\u2019t see who threw stones at me, as I was holding the camera in front of my eyes to photograph the developments. A stone hit my left arm and smashed it. But Rashad was more unlucky. A stone hit his head and he received a serious injury to his ear.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least two journalists have been injured whilst covering violent clashes between police and residents in Azerbaijan. During protests calling for the resignation of a local government, Index awards nominee Idrak Abbasov, from the Institute for War &amp; Peace suffered an arm injury as stones were thrown at him, whilst\u00a0Rashid Aliyev, a reporter for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"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":[8867,4059,584,585],"tags":[115,346,3808,2752,727,212,4373],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33608"}],"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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33608"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33611,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33608\/revisions\/33611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}