Azerbaijani journalist detained for five months ‘without justification’
By Emil Weber
Award-winning journalist Seymur Mashgul oglu Haziyev was deprived of freedom for nearly five months between 2014 and 2015 without justification, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on 6. December 2018.
Human Rights Court in Straßbourg (Picture by Trygve W Nodeland via Wikimedia Commons)
Haziyev, at the time, was working for a satellite TV program that is critical towards the government and writing for the Azadliq newspaper. He was also a member of the opposition Popular Front Party. He won a “Free Media Award” in 2016 for independent journalism in Eastern Europe issued by the Fritt Ord Foundation and ZEIT-Stiftung.
While…