FOREIGN JOURNALISTS SAID NOT ALLOWED TO PUT ALL QUESTIONS TO AZERI PRESIDENT
Azadliq
feb 16 2010
Azerbaijan
The office of the Azerbaijan president is said to be preventing
foreign journalists from putting any questions they want to ask when
interviewing Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, opposition daily
Azadliq has said.
The president cannot be asked questions about "dictatorship,
corruption, monarchy, democracy, human rights and the election",
the paper said, quoting what it said was a reliable source.
However, issues concerning the Nagornyy Karabakh problem and foreign
policy can be asked, according to the report. An influential US
newspaper, the report said, refused to interview the president when
faced with these unexpected conditions prior to interviewing the
president.