Событие Ikram Ragimov - Justice for Journalists

Ikram Ragimov

Affiliated media: realiq.info, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: November 1, 2018

Attack type:

  • Prosecution for libel, insult, violation of privacy (1)

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: contact.az

Location: Azerbaijan, Baku

Additional information:

Az-Granata LLC sued the website realiq.info and its editor-in-chief Ikram Ragimov. Az-Granata is one of the main companies involved in the production of alcoholic beverages. The site disseminated information about cases of poisoning from the company's products. The article cites a complaint from a poisoned consumer. Az-Granata considered the article to be false and demanded that the publication be fined. Local courts fined the site 5,000 manats.

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