On February 7 and 8 the Khachmaz District Court held hearings on the case of Khayal TV executive director Vugar Gonagov and the channel’s chief editor Zaur Guliyev, who were arrested in connection with the mass riot that took place on March 1, 2012, in Guba city. According to the journalists’ lawyer, Khazar TV correspondent Elmin Karimov and Kanal 13 online TV correspondent Binali Tosoyev testified in the trial. According to Hajili, the witnesses said that following the speech of former Guba mayor Rauf Habibov, mayor’s...