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    Amnesty International calls on Azerbaijan to bring perpetrators of attacks
    on journalists to justice

    29 February 2008 [03:37] - Today.Az

    Ahead of the eve of the third anniversary of the death of a prominent
    Azerbaijani journalist Elmar Hüseynov, Amnesty International is
    reiterating its call to the Azerbaijani authorities to fulfil their
    international and domestic obligations to guarantee the right to
    freedom of expression.

    On 2 March 2005, Elmar Hüseynov, editor-in-chief of the outspoken
    weekly newspaper Monitor, was shot and killed outside his home in
    Baku. His colleagues and international press freedom organizations
    ascribed his murder to the political content of his newspaper.

    Amnesty International has documented cases of journalists striving to
    expose the misuse of government power, who are increasingly living
    under the threat of politically motivated arrests, physical assault
    and even death.

    The organization has noted that predominantly journalists associated
    with the opposition are the victims of physical assault. As a rule,
    investigations into these physical assaults do not lead to convictions,
    thus contributing to a climate of impunity for such attacks.

    In its latest document, Azerbaijan: Mixed messages on freedom of
    expression, Amnesty International calls on the Azerbaijani authorities
    to ensure a climate in which critical and alternative viewpoints can
    be expressed without fear of repression.

    --Boundary_(ID_6h1A+lFAoxn4dv+02QLcjw )--
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