Two Reporters Sentenced In Azerbaijan

Emil Lazarian News

TWO REPORTERS SENTENCED IN AZERBAIJAN
By Aghavmi Haroutiunian

AZG Armenian Daily
18/05/2007

Editor and editor-in-chief of "Muksalifet" daily became the recurrent
media victims of pressure in Azerbaijan. They were sentenced to 30
months of imprisonment, according to the claim of one of the parliament
deputies of Azerbaijan.

Seven reporters are in prisons of Azerbaijan at present. The
international institutions have repeatedly expressed their concern
about the pressure and violence against media in Azerbaijan.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS