{"id":28678,"date":"2024-05-28T11:22:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T11:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/?p=28678"},"modified":"2024-05-28T11:22:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T11:22:32","slug":"appeal-court-keeps-journalists-orujev-and-eminov-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/news-feed\/appeal-court-keeps-journalists-orujev-and-eminov-in-custody\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal court keeps journalists Orujev and Eminov in custody"},"content":{"rendered":"On 27 May, the Baku Court of Appeal did not satisfy the appeals of Aziz Orujev, head of &#8220;Kanal 13&#8221; Internet TV, and Shamo Eminov, an employee of the same media structure, to extend their arrest for another month. This was reported to Turan by Orujev&#8217;s wife Lamiya Orujeva and Eminov&#8217;s lawyer Alibaba Rzayev.<br \/><br \/>The defence considers the detention of journalists and bringing them to criminal responsibility as unreasonable.<br \/><br \/>Moreover, both journalists have serious health problems, Orujev has been in a prison hospital since mid-March.<br \/><br \/>Aziz Orujev was detained on 27 November 2023 and charged with illegal construction and the court arrested him for three months.<br \/><br \/>On 19 December, he was charged again under Article 206.3.2 (smuggling by prior conspiracy by a group of persons) of the Criminal Code. At that, Orujev faces up to eight years of imprisonment.<br \/><br \/>Note that Aziz Orujev had already been sentenced in 2017 to 6 years of imprisonment on charges of illegal entrepreneurship. In 2018, the Supreme Court dropped a part of the charges against him and replaced the real term with a suspended sentence.<br \/><br \/>** Shamo Eminov, a freelance journalist collaborating with &#8220;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).","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 27 May, the Baku Court of Appeal did not satisfy the appeals of Aziz Orujev, head of &#8220;Kanal 13&#8221; Internet TV, and Shamo Eminov, an employee of the same media structure, to extend their arrest for another month. This was reported to Turan by Orujev&#8217;s wife Lamiya Orujeva and Eminov&#8217;s lawyer Alibaba Rzayev. The [&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-28678","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\/28678","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=28678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28679,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28678\/revisions\/28679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}