{"id":1476512,"date":"2024-02-01T16:00:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T16:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/01\/azerbaijan-accused-crackdown-journalists-run-up-election"},"modified":"2024-02-01T16:00:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T16:00:23","slug":"azerbaijan-accused-of-crackdown-on-journalists-in-run-up-to-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/02\/01\/azerbaijan-accused-of-crackdown-on-journalists-in-run-up-to-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan accused of crackdown on journalists in run-up to election"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sevinc Vaqifgizi is one of 13 independent journalists detained since snap presidential vote announced<\/p>

In late November last year, the investigative journalist Sevinc Vaqifgizi was arrested upon arrival at Heydar Aliyev international airport in Azerbaijan and accused of smuggling foreign currency.<\/p>

Shortly before takeoff the 34-year-old editor had learned that her close colleague, Ulvi Hasanli, had been detained hours earlier. The two journalists ran Abzas Media, a small, independent Azerbaijani news outlet known for its investigations. They deny the charges.<\/p> Continue reading...<\/a>\n

This post was originally published on Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sevinc Vaqifgizi is one of 13 independent journalists detained since snap presidential vote announcedIn late November last year, the investigative journalist Sevinc Vaqifgizi was arrested upon arrival at Heydar Aliyev international airport in Azerbaija…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32404,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,92,471,1311,6,793,94,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1476513,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476512\/revisions\/1476513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}