Reporter who was assaulted is jailed for “disturbing public order”

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Azerbaijani government to release Zaur Gambarov, a journalist who has been jailed on a trumped-up charge of “disturbing public order” in connection with incident last year in which he was attacked and beaten by an official and his driver.

A reporter for the Anews.az website, Gambarov was sentenced to three and a half years in prison on 28 February over an altercation at the local branch

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