Baku, July 27, 2026 (AFP) - Azerbaijan jails journalists, NGO workers in media crackdown

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2026-07-27

An Azerbaijani court on Monday jailed a group of independent journalists and NGO workers on charges of "smuggling", in what press advocates called a political case designed to stifle their work. Mushfig Jabbar, Farid Ismayilov and Elmir Abbasov, employees of the Toplum TV media outlet, were arrested in March 2024 during a police raid on their outlet's Baku offices. Four NGO workers and a pro-democracy activist linked to the news outlet were arres......

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