{"id":27920,"date":"2024-03-19T09:56:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T09:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/?p=27920"},"modified":"2024-03-19T09:56:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T09:56:41","slug":"court-prolongs-terms-of-pre-trial-detention-of-two-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/news-feed\/court-prolongs-terms-of-pre-trial-detention-of-two-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Court prolongs terms of pre-trial detention of two journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On 19 March, Sabail district court of Baku prolonged terms of pre-trial detention of the head of &#8220;Internet TV Kanal 13&#8221; Aziz Orujov and employee of this media structure Shamo Eminov for another two months. Aziz Orujev&#8217;s wife Lamiya Orujeva informed Turan about it.<br \/>\nAccording to her, appeals will be filed against the court decisions.<br \/>\n&#8220;I am now highly concerned about Aziz&#8217;s health. There are no investigative actions; however, the term of arrest is prolonged for the third time,&#8221; the wife said.<br \/>\nIn turn, Shamo Eminov&#8217;s lawyer Alibaba Rzayev also stressed the unreasonableness of the extension of his client&#8217;s arrest.<br \/>\n&#8220;The accusation is lacking any legal grounds,&#8221; the lawyer told Turan.<br \/>\nNote that Aziz Orujev was detained on 27 November 2023 and accused of illegal construction and the court arrested him for three months.<br \/>\nOn 19 December, he was charged again &#8211; under Article 206.3.2 (smuggling by prior conspiracy by a group of persons) of the Criminal Code. Orujev faces up to eight years of imprisonment.<br \/>\nIt must be recalled that Aziz Orujev had already been sentenced in 2017 to 6 years of imprisonment on charges of illegal entrepreneurship. In 2018, the Supreme Court reviewed the punishment and cancelled the conviction.<br \/>\n** Shamo Eminov, a freelance journalist collaborating with &#8220;Internet TV Kanal 13&#8221;, was detained on 22 December and arrested for three months on charges of &#8220;smuggling of foreign currency by prior conspiracy by a group of persons&#8221; (Article 206.3.2 of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On 19 March, Sabail district court of Baku prolonged terms of pre-trial detention of the head of &#8220;Internet TV Kanal 13&#8221; Aziz Orujov and employee of this media structure Shamo Eminov for another two months. Aziz Orujev&#8217;s wife Lamiya Orujeva informed Turan about it. According to her, appeals will be filed against the court decisions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-feed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27923,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27920\/revisions\/27923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}