Projects in 'Azerbaijan'
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23. April 2012
Among the threats to media freedom around the world is misuse of the ordinary laws of the countries in which the media operate. Chief among these is criminal libel, which is one of the laws most frequently abused to imprison journalists.
MLDI has now made a high-level bid to stop the abuse of this law, at least in the 47 countries signed up to the European Convention on Human Rights. We have formally asked the European Court of Human Rights, which polices the Convention, to lay down clear markers for criminal libel in order to protect journalists.
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Azerbaijan
6. July 2011
The Media Legal Defence Initiative, Media Rights Institute Azerbaijan and Index on Censorship have intervened at the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Hajizade and Abdullayev v. Azerbaijan.
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Azerbaijan
3. June 2010
In 2007 an Azerbaijani journalist, Ilgar Nasibov, wrote to the country's president to complain about police brutality. He was accused of libelling local police officers and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. A week later he won an appeal only to be given a suspended sentence on related charges, and appeals against this sentence have failed. Nasibov has long been a thorn in the side of his local authorities and it is widely believed his trial was unfair.
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