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In honor of World Press Freedom Day on May 3, @RFE/RL journalists talk about threats to the media in their home countries, and how they are fighting back against repression of free speech.
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RFE/RL Correspondent in Azerbaijan Targeted in Blackmail Campaign
Disturbing threats have been made against @khadija0576. Read Khadija Ismailova’s response to blackmailing on her Facebook page.
Ismailova has won numerous awards for her investigative reports into official corruption in Azerbaijan, including the finances and assets of President Ilham Aliyev and his family members. She recently consulted with the media company CNBC on the production of a television report entitled “Filthy Rich,” aired on February 23, that explored the family’s real estate holdings in Dubai. She has been interrogated by police on several occasions and has been the subject of slander campaigns in pro-government media.
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In addition to this report from Golnaz Esfandiari, Radio Farda web editor Fred Petrossians covers the threats over at Global Voices.
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For almost two decades, RFE/RL’s Reza Veisi — a well known journalist in Iran — lived under the strain of severe psychological pressure as well as direct intimidation from government authorities before joining RFE/RL’s Persian-language service, Radio Farda, in early 2010.
“For over ten years, from 1999-2009, I couldn’t explain to anyone why I couldn’t write any report and could only work as an editor. I kept this from everyone,” explains Veisi.
Twelve years later he is still afraid of revealing details about the threats leveled by the intelligence officials...[READ MORE] -
Rafiq Tagi, an Azerbaijani journalist who stabbed in Baku earlier this week, has died. This interview with RFE/RL’s Radio Azadliq, was conducted just an hour before he passed away…[READ MORE]
