Ramin Deco

Affiliated media: Radio Azadlyg, Photo-videographer

Incident date: March 18, 2020

Attack type:

• Damage to / seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents, journalistic materials, print media circulation

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Voice of America

Location: Azerbaijan, Baku

Additional information:

On March 18, a group of citizens held a protest in front of Azerbaijan's Turkish Embassy. They protested against the arrest in Turkey of the well-known Azerbaijani businessman Mubariz Mansimov. Most of the journalists, bloggers who carry out their legitimate professional activities were subjected to physical pressure. Photo-videographer of Radio Azadlyg Ramin Deko was beaten, his professional equipment was confiscated. Freelancer Tabriz Mirzoev, Nurlan Gahramanli, Teymur Kerimov and others were also subjected to physical pressure.