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    PEOPLE IN NEED: BLACK PR TACTICS AGAINST CRITICS IN AZERBAIJAN

    11:16 * 03.12.14

    In recent days, some Azerbaijani media outlets have launched a black
    PR campaign against People in Need (PIN), labelling the organization
    as pro-Armenian, Contact.az reports.

    The concerted media effort started after PIN presented an exhibition
    on political prisoners in Azerbaijan during Eastern Partnership Civil
    Society Forum in Batumi in late November.

    "The accusations of being pro-Armenian are a common, old method used
    by Azerbaijani propaganda to brush off any criticism and to divert
    attention from the country's disastrous human rights record.

    This is yet another example of what other international organizations
    working on Azerbaijan have faced," says PIN director ©imon Panek.

    Independent and respected international organizations such as Human
    Rights Watch and Amnesty International have regularly been accused
    of prejudice, bias and "pro-Armenian position".

    PIN has been supporting Azerbaijan's civil society since 2013. The
    Azerbaijani government launched an unprecedented crackdown on country's
    civil society by introducing harsh NGO legislation and jailing human
    rights defenders over the past year. "Such an intense and focused
    crackdown has no compare in other Eastern Partnership countries
    recently. Not even in Belarus," adds Simon Panek.

    http://www.tert.am/en/news/2014/12/03/pin/

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