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Azerbaijan detains director of third media outlet

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Azerbaijani police have detained the founder and director of Kanal 11, the third independent media outlet to be targetted in the past month. Teymur Karimov was remanded to four months of pre-trial detention on charges of extortion. The Ministry of Internal Affairs stated that Karimov, the founder and director of Kanal 11, an online TV station, was detained on Monday. Ibrahim Amiraslanli, an Interior Ministry spokesperson, said that the ministry was pressing charges against Karimov ‘based o

Rufat Muradli (left) and Kanal 13 founder Aziz Orujov (right). Image via Facebook.

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Kanal 13 anchor imprisoned by Baku court for ‘disobeying police’

by Ismi Aghayev

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An anchor at the independent online Azerbaijani TV channel, Kanal 13, has been sentenced to 30 days of administrative arrest, a week after the channel’s founder was arrested. Rufat Muradli was convicted on Monday of petty hooliganism and disobeying police. He was arrested on Saturday after an alleged altercation with police officers in Baku. His lawyer, Nazim Musayev, stated that Muradli was detained following a verbal altercation with plainclothes police officers. ‘Something happened bet

Kanal 13 founder and director Aziz Orujov. Image via Facebook.

AbzasMedia

Azerbaijan arrests founder of Kanal 13 a week after AbzasMedia raid

by Ismi Aghayev

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Azerbaijani police have arrested the founder and director of the independent online TV channel Kanal 13, a week after the authorities raided the offices of AbzasMedia and arrested its management. Aziz Orujov was detained in Baku on Monday. On Tuesday, a court remanded him into three months of pre-trial detention on charges of building a house without a permit. If found guilty, he faces up to three years in prison. Orujov’s lawyer, Bahruz Bayramov, said the charges aimed to restrict Kanal 13’