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Podcast | Boycotting the foreign agent law and sex as a weapon in Azerbaijan

2 March 2023
Georgian journalists protesting the foreign agent draft law. Mariam Nikuradze/OC Media.

Chai Khana’s Executive Director, Lika Antadze, talks about her outlet’s decision to boycott the foreign agent bill in Georgia, and what the bill could mean for independent media and civil society organisations. Both Chai Khana, OC Media, and over 60 other media organisations signed a petition vowing to disobey the draft law if it is adopted by parliament.

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Narmin Shahmarzade, a psychologist and feminist activist, phones in to talk about how critics of the Azerbaijani government are intimidated into silence through the leaking of their private and intimate images and videos.

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