{"id":28864,"date":"2024-06-25T10:11:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T10:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/?p=28864"},"modified":"2024-06-25T10:11:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T10:11:04","slug":"court-of-appeal-keeps-journalist-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/news-feed\/court-of-appeal-keeps-journalist-in-custody\/","title":{"rendered":"Court of Appeal keeps journalist in custody"},"content":{"rendered":"Baku Court of Appeal on 24 June considered an appeal against the extension of pre-trial detention of journalist Nargiz Absalamova arrested in the &#8220;Abzas Media&#8221; case.<br \/><br \/>Lawyer Rovshana Rahimova told Turan that the court did not satisfy the appeal, leaving in force the 11 June decision of the Khatai court to extend the journalist&#8217;s arrest for 3 months.<br \/><br \/>The lawyer considers the court&#8217;s decision illegal and unreasonable.<br \/><br \/>* Since 20 November 2023, six journalists and media workers of &#8220;Abzas Media&#8221; were arrested on charges of &#8220;currency smuggling&#8221;. They denied the charges, linking the criminal case to investigations into corruption published in &#8220;Abzas Media&#8221;.<br \/><br \/>International media protection organisations called on the Azerbaijani authorities to immediately release the detained journalists and to stop the pressure on the media.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baku Court of Appeal on 24 June considered an appeal against the extension of pre-trial detention of journalist Nargiz Absalamova arrested in the &#8220;Abzas Media&#8221; case. Lawyer Rovshana Rahimova told Turan that the court did not satisfy the appeal, leaving in force the 11 June decision of the Khatai court to extend the journalist&#8217;s arrest [&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-28864","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\/28864","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=28864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28865,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28864\/revisions\/28865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}