{"id":165478,"date":"2014-10-04T22:29:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T22:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/article\/stopped-at-the-border-again\/"},"modified":"2021-10-29T12:09:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T08:09:17","slug":"stopped-at-the-border-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/stopped-at-the-border-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Stopped at the border&#8230; Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/az\/14843\/\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14843\"\/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/az\/14843\/\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14843\"\/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\n  It is becoming more of a habit for Azerbaijani customs to stop some of its citizens at customs either when leaving or arriving back into the country. This time, it was Khadija Ismayil&#8217;s turn. Again. She has been already stopped several times. Last time she was questioned and searched the customs removed bandages on her leg in search for something they could not explain.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Last night, on her trip back form Strasbourg Khadija was stopped at the customs once again at the Baku International Airport where she was kept for five hours.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  But the debacle was resolved once customs officers realized that a memory card isn&#8217;t a USB stick. If however it was a USB stick then they had to review whats on it said in an explanation Khadija while exiting the airport to Meydan TV.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Later, Khadija shared in a status update [the text was edited from its original format] on Facebook how it all looked like:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <i><br \/>\n    &#8220;There is always a way not to bring the political harassment to absurdity. Although custom officers were polite, they turned this search into a comedy. It was ridiculous for them to expect me to allow to review my flash card without even a proper documentation. They didn&#8217;t want to document anything. They in fact couldn&#8217;t take me to police station because this meant for them documenting the search. They took me out, said we&#8217;d go to police, but then they brought me back, because they realized I was not scared.<br \/>\n  <\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <br \/>\n  <i><br \/>\n    So they didn&#8217;t know what to do. They wanted to search my things, but they didn&#8217;t want to document it. They decided to let me go, but they needed to save their face. So they went for the memory card (which they originally thought was a USB stick\/flash drive). &#8220;Ahh we thought it is a USB drive, but it is a memory card. This we don&#8217;t need&#8221; they said. I never told I had a flash drive on me. It was in my wallet and they saw it, so they demanded to review it.<br \/>\n  <\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <br \/>\n  <i><br \/>\n    So, I decided not to spoil their exit strategy. I nodded. And when they told me they have no claims any more, I said, look I actually can show you what is on the memory card, but as long as it is not on your equipment. I asked a friend who was waiting outside to send in his camera. I put the memory card in. It was empty. I knew it was empty from the start so it wasn&#8217;t about having sensitive materials or not. It was a matter of privacy and matter of law (they couldn&#8217;t just search me like that without documenting it and having a permit).<br \/>\n  <\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <br \/>\n  <i><br \/>\n    Then they said, &#8220;are you playing with us all these hours?&#8221; To what I responded, &#8220;No I am not. I am not playing. I said you can search things only if you have a right and proper paperwork. Otherwise, it is up to me if I want to show you something or not.&#8221;<br \/>\n  <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is becoming more of a habit for Azerbaijani customs &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Stopped at the border&#8230; Again\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/stopped-at-the-border-again\/#more-165478\" aria-label=\"Read more about Stopped at the border&#8230; Again\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":14843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","infinite-scroll-item","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Stopped at the border... 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