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Toplum TV co-founder Alasgar Mammadli. Image via social media.

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan rejects detained Toplum co-founder’s request for urgent biopsy

by Aytan Farhadova

•2 min read

Azerbaijani authorities are reportedly barring Alasgar Mammadli, a detained media lawyer and co-founder of Toplum TV, from getting an urgent biopsy for a growth in his throat. Mammadli was detained by the Azerbaijani authorities during their raid on Toplum TV, an independent online TV, in March as part of their ongoing crackdown on media in Azerbaijan. His lawyer, Zibeyda Sadigova, warned on Wednesday that Mammadli was experiencing pain due to a 23mm swelling in his thyroid gland. ‘This mean

Azerbaijan

‘My son is not a smuggler’: how Azerbaijan detains critics

by Aytan Farhadova

•5 min read

Journalists and activists arrested in Azerbaijan’s latest crackdown on independent media have been accused of smuggling foreign currency, against a backdrop of increasingly tight constraints on foreign funding. But conversations with their families suggest a picture of low incomes and struggles to make ends meet. ‘My son has never been a criminal’, says 60-year-old Matanat Jabbar. She is the mother of Mushfig Jabbar, one of six people arrested in a raid on independent online outlet Toplum TV