REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS URGE AZERI INTERIOR MINISTRY HEAD ENSURE SECURITY FOR JOURNALISTS

Pan Armenian News
Sept 28, 2005

BAKU, SEPTEMBER 28, ARMENPRESS: “Reporters Without Borders ” urged
Azerbaijani interior minister Ramil Usubov to do his utmost to protect
journalists in the run-up to legislative elections after dispersal of
the oppositionists’ action on 25 September 2005, Trend news agency
reported, citing a statement of the international organization,
issued today.

The statement notes, “the events of 25 September demonstrated
again the complicated climate set up in Azerbaijan on the eve of
the parliamentary elections”. “The situation is especially sharply
reflected on the activities of the Media representatives. It becomes
even more difficult to obtain information in Azerbaijan and the
journalist’s activities are connected with the risk”, the document
reads.

The statement was prepared in response to the tough actions of the
representatives of the law-enforcement bodies towards four journalists
during the latest action of the Azerbaijan’s opposition.