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Azerbaijan Correspondent Threatened with Slander

Ilqar Nasibov, Correspondent, RFE/RL Azerbaijan Service, Nakhichevan, Jan 2008

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December 28, 2009
Malahat Nasibova and Ilgar Nasibov, reporters for RFE/RL's Azerbaijan service, were summoned to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in Nakhichevan, an exclave of Azerbaijan, on December 28 and told to sign a statement regarding an incident they reported on December 15. They were released two hours later. The Nasibovs had also been summoned to the Ministry on December 23 to discuss the case, and had been told that they would be accused of slander if they didn’t withdraw their complaint. More

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