Событие Mustafa Gajibeili - Justice for Journalists

Mustafa Gajibeili

Affiliated media: bastainfo.com, Manager

Incident date: February 21, 2019

Attack type:

  • Suspended sentence

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Voice of America

Location: Azerbaijan, Baku

Additional information:

Mustafa Gajibeyli, head of the bastainfo.com website, Anar Mamedov, editor-in-chief of the criminal.az website, and Nuraddin Ismailov, editor of the teref.info website, were held responsible for "open calls for the violent seizure or retention of power , forcibly withholding or forcibly changing the constitutional structure or forcibly dividing territorial integrity, and dissemination of material of such content." All three journalists were sentenced to 5 years and 6 months of probation.

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