Shamo Eminov

Affiliated media: YouTube project Kanal13, Employee

Incident date: December 26, 2023

Attack type:

• Criminal/administrative prosecution excluding (1), (2) and (3)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Turan.az

Location: Azerbaijan, Baku

Additional information:

Journalist Shamo Eminov, who cooperated with YouTube project Kanal13, has been arrested on charges of smuggling. Eminov was detained on December 22, his wife Durdana Eminova told Turan. In the evening of the same day, their home was searched. «In the morning of December 22, Shamo left the apartment to go for an interview. Later, I left the house and went to visit my daughter. In the evening, I received a call from the police that they had my husband and asked me to bring his diploma. When I returned home to get my diploma, I saw that everything in the flat was scattered and my husband’s laptop was missing. It turned out that a search had been conducted», — Eminova said. She said that for five days, she could not clarify the fate of her husband. On December 26, Eminov called for 2-3 minutes and said that he was accused of «smuggling» and the court chose a preventive measure against him in the form of arrest for 3 months and 5 days.