{"id":169048,"date":"2015-07-24T03:16:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T03:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/article\/rsf-shocked-by-the-governments-persecution-of-zahidovs-family\/"},"modified":"2021-10-29T12:28:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T08:28:05","slug":"rsf-shocked-by-the-governments-persecution-of-zahidovs-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/rsf-shocked-by-the-governments-persecution-of-zahidovs-family\/","title":{"rendered":"RSF &#8220;shocked by the government\u2019s persecution&#8221; of Zahidov&#8217;s family"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/az\/29916\/\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29916\"\/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\n  <i><br \/>\n    Source: Reporters Without Borders<br \/>\n  <\/i>\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/az\/29919\/\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29919\"\/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\n  On July 22, 2015, Johann Bihr, the head of the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Eastern Europe and Central Asia desk, decried recent arrests of opposition journalist Ganimat Zahidov&#8217;s relatives. &#8220;We are extremely shocked by the government\u2019s persecution of Ganimat Zahidov\u2019s family,&#8221; Bihr commented.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He\u00a0 added: \u201cIn view of all the precedents in Azerbaijan, there can be no doubt that this wave of arrests is designed to pressure Zahid into terminating his journalistic activities.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We urge the authorities to put an immediate end to these trumped-up prosecutions and to abandon the practice of collective punishment,&#8221; Bihr said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  On its<br \/>\n  <i><br \/>\n    <b><br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/en.rsf.org\/azerbaijan-azerbaijani-authorities-hound-well-22-07-2015,48135.html\"><br \/>\n        website<br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n    <\/b><br \/>\n  <\/i><br \/>\n  , RSF published that the organization \u201ccondemns the Azerbaijani government\u2019s harassment of the family of<br \/>\n  <i><br \/>\n    <b><br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/heroes.rsf.org\/en\/ganimat-zahid\/\"><br \/>\n        Ganimat Zahid<br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n    <\/b><br \/>\n  <\/i><br \/>\n  .\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Azadlig editor Ganimat Zahidov currently lives in political exile in France, while his relatives reside in Azerbaijan.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The local authorities arrested his nephew Tural on July 18 for allegedly disobeying the police. He was sentenced to 30 days of administrative detention.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  His cousin Rovshan Zahidov and another nephew, Rufat Zahidov, were arrested separately on July 20. Rovshan was sentenced to 25 days in administrative detention, and Rufat is facing 5 to 12 years in prison for drug possession. According to Rufat&#8217;s father, the police apprehended him directly from the workplace in the Yasamal district of Baku.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In 2012, Ganimat Zahidov launched a weekly TV program \u201cAzerbaycan Saati,\u201d which was transmitted via satellite to Azerbaijan from abroad. The program strongly criticized the regime and the Aliyev family.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As RSF reported, Zahidov plans to increase the length of the program. Despite the harassment of his family, he told RSF that nothing would convince him to end his journalistic activities.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Azerbaijan is ranked 162nd out of 180 countries in the<br \/>\n  <i><br \/>\n    <b><br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/index.rsf.org\/#!\/index-details\/AZE\"><br \/>\n        2015 Reporters Without Borders press freedom index<br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n    <\/b><br \/>\n  <\/i><br \/>\n  .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporters Without Borders: &#8220;We are extremely shocked by the government\u2019s persecution of Ganimat Zahidov\u2019s family.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":29916,"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-169048","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 v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>RSF &quot;shocked by the government\u2019s persecution&quot; 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