{"id":31174,"date":"2025-10-15T11:12:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/?p=31174"},"modified":"2025-10-15T11:12:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:12:42","slug":"arrested-journalist-shamshad-aga-denied-release-from-pre-trial-detention-for-relatives-memorial-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/news-feed\/arrested-journalist-shamshad-aga-denied-release-from-pre-trial-detention-for-relatives-memorial-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrested Journalist Shamshad Aga Denied Release from Pre-Trial Detention for Relative&#8217;s Memorial Service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On October 14, the Khatai District Court reviewed a petition to grant temporary leave from the Pre-Trial Detention Center (SIZO) to <strong>Shamshad Aga (Aghayev)<\/strong>, the head of the arqument.az website and a person arrested in the <strong>Meydan TV case<\/strong>, so he could attend the memorial service for his 18-year-old niece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The petition requested that Aga be released under convoy for a few hours to meet with close relatives and commemorate his niece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the court did not satisfy the petition, according to the journalist&#8217;s relatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It should be noted that on October 13, Ruslan Izzetli and Akif Gurbanov, detained members of the founding council of the <strong>&#8220;Third Republic&#8221; Platform<\/strong>, appealed to the President of Azerbaijan calling for the release of Shamshad Aga, the chief editor of argument.az, citing his wife&#8217;s illness and his custody of two children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The chief editor of the arqument.az website, Shamshad Aga (Aghayev), was arrested on February 5 in connection with the Meydan TV case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 14, the Khatai District Court reviewed a petition to grant temporary leave from the Pre-Trial Detention Center (SIZO) to Shamshad Aga (Aghayev), the head of the arqument.az website and a person arrested in the Meydan TV case, so he could attend the memorial service for his 18-year-old niece. The petition requested that Aga [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1047],"class_list":["post-31174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-feed","tag-editor"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31174","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=31174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31176,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31174\/revisions\/31176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irfs.org\/az\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}