Well-known journalist specializing in human rights issues Ayten Mammadova was attacked around midnight on May 8 at the entrance of the building where she lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following her into the lift, an unidentified man put a knife to the journalist’s throat and threatened her in a court case, which he did not name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to her, a middle-aged man entered the lift as she was returning home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“When the lift door closed. He grabbed my jaw with one hand and put a knife to my throat with the other. The knife cut through my throat. Then he took the knife away, and then he put it to my throat once more. A gash was left on my throat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said to me: “you haven’t wised up”. Then he started threatening and insulting my young daughter. When the lift reached my floor, he let me go and drove back,” Mamedova said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the journalist, her husband tried to chase the attacker, but the attacker managed to escape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She believes the attack was related to her professional activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Mammadova believes that it may be related to the case of the murder of a minor girl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Mamedova, she received a call on her home phone 20 days later about the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mammadova is one of the journalists who actively cover the trial of Ilkin Suleymanov, the defendant in the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It should be noted that during the trial many facts came to light which give grounds to claim Suleymanov’s innocence and falsification of the criminal case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mammadova believes that “there are forces that do not want to establish the truth in this case”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Mamedova, during her journalistic activities she had never had any problems with either state structures or individuals”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“This is the first attack,” Mamedova said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mamedova had been a correspondent of the opposition newspaper Azadlyg for long years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the paper’s printing stopped and its online version was blocked, she has co-operated with various media outlets in Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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