{"id":57797,"date":"2014-05-27T10:30:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T09:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=57797"},"modified":"2022-12-16T14:23:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T14:23:05","slug":"azerbaijan-journalist-jailed-critical-facebook-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=57797","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan: Journalist jailed for critical Facebook posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_57312\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/4528441.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57312\" class=\"wp-image-57312\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/4528441.jpg\" alt=\"(Image: Aziz Karimov)\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/4528441.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/4528441-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/4528441-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-57312\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Image: Aziz Karimov)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An Azerbaijani journalist and blogger has been sentenced to five and a half years imprisonment after publishing posts deemed critical of the authorities on Facebook. Abdul Abilov, who runs the Facebook page \u201cStop sycophants!\u201d was charged with illegal possession, storage, manufacturing or sale of drugs at the Baku Serious Crimes Court. The social media page was closed down shortly after his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Emin Huseynov, chairman of the Institute for Reporters&#8217; Freedom and Safety (IRFS), is deeply concerned by the sentencing of journalists and bloggers in Azerbaijan, especially as the country has recently been handed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/05\/23\/us-azerbaijan-rights-idUSBREA4M0EK20140523\">chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers<\/a> for the Council of Europe, a post Azerbaijan will hold for the next six months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s harsh conviction shows once again the extraordinary measures that authorities are willing to take to crush criticism of their repressive policies, inconsistent with the country\u2019s chairmanship of the Council of Europe,&#8221; Huseynov said in a statement. The IRFS has also called on the Council to \u201cimmediately appoint a special rapporteur on political prisoners in Azerbaijan\u201d to analyse the situation in the country as well as raising the issue to the Parliamentary Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Abilov joins the eight journalist and seven bloggers and online activists already serving time in jail in the country for politically-motivated convictions, including the recent sentencing of the independent newspaper website editor <a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/2014\/05\/court-in-azerbaijan-sentences-journalist-to-eight.php\">Parviz Hashimli<\/a>. And it\u2019s not just journalists who are coming under fire from the authorities. Early May saw the sentencing of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2014\/05\/five-things-remember-azerbaijan\/\">eight young activists<\/a> on charges of attending to \u201ccause public disorder\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2014\/05\/azerbaijan-journalist-jailed-critical-facebook-posts\">This article was posted on May 27, 2014 at indexoncensorship.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Azerbaijani journalist, who spoke critically of the authorities on social media, has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"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":[7145,8867,5644],"tags":[115,42849,136,52,208,2583],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57797"}],"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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57797"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87540,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57797\/revisions\/87540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}