Uzbek Authorities Say Case Against Jailed Blogger Lawful ; Rights Groups Blast Fabricated Charges
February 11, 2021 17:19 GMT
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TASHKENT The Uzbek Prosecutor-General s Office has said a criminal case against Otabek Sattoriy, a video blogger critical of the regional government, is lawful, while rights watchdogs say the case is fabricated and have urged Tashkent to immediately release him.
In its February 11 statement, the Prosecutor-General s Office said that special inspections had not revealed any wrongdoings by the Interior Ministry s directorate in the southern Surxondaryo region, where the 40-year-old founder and editor of the video blog Halq Fikiri (People s Opinion) was arrested in lateJanuary.
Rights Group Says Jailed Azerbaijani Journalist In Danger As Hunger Strike Continues
February 10, 2021 09:13 GMT
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is calling on Azerbaijan to provide urgent medical assistance to a journalist who has been in prison for 19 months and on a hunger strike for more than a week.
Polad Aslanov’s “already poor health is now failing after eight days on hunger strike to press his demand for a fair trial and transfer to house arrest,” the Paris-based media freedom watchdog said in a statement on February 9.
RSF said Aslanov weighed only 44 kilograms when he began the hunger strike and he is now complaining of kidney and stomach pains.
My morning drive to the office in Budapest has always been accompanied by the sound of Klubrádió, one of Hungary’s few remaining independent media outlets. But my listening habits will soon have to change. This radio station, which is refreshingly critical of Viktor Orban's government, has become the latest in a long line of media outlets to face closure. The National Media and Infocommunications Authority (NMHH), the state agency responsible.
Hungary's leading independent radio station Klubradio lost an appeal Tuesday to keep its broadcasting licence after the country's media regulator said it had infringed administrative rules, raising n…