{"id":27958,"date":"2024-03-27T13:58:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T13:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/?p=27958"},"modified":"2024-03-27T13:58:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T13:58:59","slug":"the-court-of-appeal-has-remanded-ulvi-hasanli-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/news-feed\/the-court-of-appeal-has-remanded-ulvi-hasanli-in-custody\/","title":{"rendered":"The Court of Appeal has remanded Ulvi Hasanli in custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On March 27, the Baku Court of Appeal rejected the complaint of Ulvi Hasanli, director of the online publication \u201cAbzas Media,\u201d to extend the period of pre-trial detention for another 3 months. During the court hearing, he denied the accusation and stated that he was being persecuted for investigative journalism by \u201cAbzas Media.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hasanli was detained on November 20, 2023. He was charged with smuggling foreign currency and by a court decision he was imprisoned for 4 months. In mid-March, the court extended the arrest period for another 3 months.<\/p>\n<p>Five \u00a0more journalists and media workers of \u201cAbzas Media\u201d have been arrested in this case.<\/p>\n<p>International journalistic and human rights organizations have condemned the Azerbaijani authorities for harassing employees of \u201cAbzas Media\u201d for their professional activities.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On March 27, the Baku Court of Appeal rejected the complaint of Ulvi Hasanli, director of the online publication \u201cAbzas Media,\u201d to extend the period of pre-trial detention for another 3 months. During the court hearing, he denied the accusation and stated that he was being persecuted for investigative journalism by \u201cAbzas Media.\u201d Hasanli was [&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-27958","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\/27958","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=27958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27965,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27958\/revisions\/27965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}