Amnesty International UK
Unchain the press in Azerbaijan
Amnesty looks back at 2011
Journalists in this former Soviet Union state continue to face intimidation.
This year the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Eynulla Fatullayev, a newspaper editor and journalist, was unlawfully imprisoned, and ordered his immediate release. He had been sentenced to eight and a half years in prison on charges of defamation, incitement to ethnic hatred, terrorism and tax evasion. However he remains in prison on trumped-up drugs charges.
Unchain the press in Azerbaijan
Amnesty looks back at 2011
Journalists in this former Soviet Union state continue to face intimidation.
This year the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Eynulla Fatullayev, a newspaper editor and journalist, was unlawfully imprisoned, and ordered his immediate release. He had been sentenced to eight and a half years in prison on charges of defamation, incitement to ethnic hatred, terrorism and tax evasion. However he remains in prison on trumped-up drugs charges.