Heyder Oguz - Justice for Journalists

Heyder Oguz

Affiliated media: ovqat.com , Editor-in-chief

Incident date: September 19, 2022

Attack type:

  • Warnings, pre-trial complaints, questioning and other extra-judicial actions

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Heyder Oguz's Facebook page

Location: Azerbaijan, Baku

Additional information:

Heyder Oguz, a well-known journalist and editor-in-chief of ovqat.com, was summoned to the General Prosecutor's Office. The journalist had written a series of articles on the conflict that had erupted in recent days on the Azerbaijani-Armenian state border. The journalist was officially warned at the Prosecutor's Office for these articles and was required not to disclose information that had not been officially confirmed.

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