Another opposition journalist is detained in Azerbaijan

On Wednesday evening the Azerbaijani correspondent for the opposition newspaper Azadlig, Khalid Garayev was detained. He is also an employee of the on-line TV program Azerbaijani Hour. Contact.az informs about this. 

Around 20.00 Garayev wrote on his page on Facebook he was arrested and was being taken to the fourth police precinct of the Binagadi district police department.

However, as the first deputy chief editor of the newspaper Azadlig, Rahim Hajiyev told Turan, in the 4th precinct representatives of the paper were told Garayev was not there.

The place of Garayev’s detention has not yet been revealed.

In turn, the journalist Khadija Ismayilova on her Facebook page recalled that two months ago the leader of the program Azerbaijani Hour, Seymour Hazy was also arrested. Another of its leaders, Natig Adilov had to leave the country after his brother, Murad Adilov was arrested.

Thus Ismaylova drew attention to the fact that Garayev was arrested a week after the program Azerbaijani Hour began airing through satellite broadcasting from Turkey.