President denounces 1959 massacre committed against Tibetans in Tibet
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Statement of the President of the Central Tibetan Administration on the 62nd Anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day
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A police officer checks a man’s permission to be on the street under measures implemented to fight Covid-19, Baku, Azerbaijan, 14 December 2020; Gambarov had commented on the mismanagement of the pandemic in Gandabay region. Aziz Karimov/Getty Images Zaur Gambarov was sentenced to three and a half years in prison on 28 February over an altercation at a branch of the social security department, where he had gone on 4 May 2020 to investigate a complaint.
This statement was originally published on rsf.org on 9 March 2021.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Azerbaijani government to release Zaur Gambarov, a journalist who has been jailed on a trumped-up charge of “disturbing public order” in connection with an incident last year in which he was attacked and beaten by an official and his driver.