Activists at COP30 demanded the release of Abzas Media’s imprisoned journalist Nargiz Absalamova and others. #Freethemall #FreeAbzas #PressFreedom #COP30 #Amnesty
Abzas Media journalist Nargiz Absalamova, 27, who was arrested two years ago and is serving an eight-year prison sentence, has been honoured with the Free Media Award.
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#FreeMediaAward #PressFreedom #AbzasMedia #NargizAbsalamova #FreeAbzas #FreeNargiz
Abzas Media’s jailed journalists – editor-in-chief Sevinj Vagifgizi and reporters Nargiz Absalamova and Elnara Gasimova – have been transferred from the Baku Investigative Detention Centre to a penitentiary facility in Lankaran, about three hours’ drive (over 250 km) from the capital.
#FreeAbzas
The jailed director of Abzas Media, Ulvi Hasanli, has sent a letter from prison describing what he says are arbitrary transfers, the theft of his personal belongings, unfair court rulings, and systematic torture of inmates.
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#FreeAbzas #AbzasMedia #UlviHasanli #Journalismisnotacrime
The jailed director of Abzas Media, Ulvi Hasanli, has sent a letter from prison describing what he says are arbitrary transfers, the theft of his personal belongings, unfair court rulings, and systematic torture of inmates.
shorturl.at/DbACW
#FreeAbzas #AbzasMedia #UlviHasanli #Journalismisnotacrime
Director of @abzasmedia.bsky.social, human rights defender and journalist Ulvi Hasanli is shortlisted for the @pace.coe.int 2025 Václav Havel Prize, alongside journalists Mzia Amaghlobeli and Maksym Butkevych 🫶
🔗 More about Ulvi: free-anar.site/political-pr...
#FreeAbzas #ClimateOfRepression
Ulvi Hasanli
Editor-in-chief of @abzasmedia.bsky.social, detained for a year and reporting abuse in Baku Detention Center Number One; subjected to further mistreatment after speaking out.
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Sevinj Vagifgizi
Editor-in-chief of @abzasmedia.bsky.social, detained in November 2023 and charged with “smuggling foreign funds” in what observers say was retaliation for anti-corruption investigations.
#FreeAbzas
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On the fourth day of their hunger strike, three female journalists from “Abzas Media” held in Baku Pretrial Detention Center have released a public statement.
Read their message: abzas.org/en/2025/7/pu...
#FreeAbzas #AbzasMedia #SevinjVagifgizi #NargizAbsalamova #ElnaraGasimova #HumanRights
After 9 days on hunger strike, Abzas Media director Ulvi Hasanli has ended his protest. Fellow journalists who joined in solidarity have also ended their strikes.
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#PressFreedom #AbzasMedia #FreeAbzas #FreeAbzasMedia #UlviHasanli #Journalismisnotacrime
Abzas Media’s editor-in-chief Sevinc Vagifgizi and journalists Nargiz Absalamova and Elnara Gasimova are on day 3 of a hunger strike, protesting the transfer of director Ulvi Hasanli to Umbaki prison.
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#FreeAbzas #FreeAbzasMedia #Journalismisnotacrime #PressFreedom
Abzas Media journalist Elnara Gasimova delivered her final courtroom statement on June 20. She has been sentenced to 8 years in prison.
Read the full statement here:
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#ElnaraGasimova #AbzasMedia #FreeAbzas #JournalismIsNotACrime #PressFreedom
Ulvi Hasanli, the imprisoned director of Abzas Media, has reportedly been subjected to torture while being held at the Umbaki prison facility. He said he has been on a hunger strike for the past five days.
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#FreeAbzas #Journalismisnotacrime #AbzasMedia #UlviHasanli
@rsf.org has strongly condemned the criminal case against Sevinj Vagifgizi, editor-in-chief of @abzasmedia.bsky.social, calling the charges of “currency smuggling” false, politically motivated, and part of a broader campaign of judicial harassment.
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#FreeSevinj #FreeAbzas
RSF: Azerbaycanlı gazeteci Sevinç Vagifqızı’na yönelik yargı tacizi son bulmalı! O, uydurma suçlamalarla Kasım 2023’ten beri tutuklu.
@rsf-tr.bsky.social , bu yargı tacizine son verilmesini talep ediyor.
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#FreeSevinj #FreeAbzas #GazetecilikSuçDeğildir