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\n \"Ganimat
\n Ganimat Zahid, Emin Milli, and Habib Muntezir
\n <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\n On 16 November, independent journalist Ganimat Zahid published details of a plan to \u201cneutralize\u201d the founders of Meydan TV, as well as Zahid himself. Zahid alleges that, according to his sources, the Azerbaijani government plans to carry out an operation against the three \u201cinconvenient emigres\u201d with the help of international criminal groups.\n<\/p>\n

\n In an article at
\n
\n Azadliq.info
\n <\/a>
\n , emigre journalist and former political prisoner Ganimat Zahid revealed details of an apparent murder plot against three emigre Azerbaijani journalists, including himself. Zahid says that he first received word of the threat in May or June from an unnamed source, and since then the journalist has learned more of the details, most recently on 15 November.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe essence of the matter is that the government of Azerbaijan believes it has successfully completed preparations and is close to carrying out the operation,\u201d wrote the emigre journalist, who has resided in France since 2011. \u201cAccording to the details I was given, an Azerbaijani criminal boss has agreed to take measures against three \u2018inconvenient emigres\u2019 living in Europe. This actually confirms and adds to the information I have been receiving since June. The criminal boss, whom I don\u2019t want to name (but I would point out that the names are known to us), has agreed to carry out an operation to neutralize the leading figures at Meydan TV, Emin Milli and Habib Muntezir, who live in Germany, and myself in France.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n The operation, allegedly instigated by the Azerbaijani government, will utilize, according to Zahid, Turkish and Russian criminal networks which stretch into Western Europe. \u201cI stress again that this information is quite definite and was received from serious sources,\u201d he added.\n<\/p>\n

\n The article ends with an appeal to Zahid\u2019s fellow journalists to seek protection: \u201cFinally I warn my colleagues Emin Milli and Habib Muntezir: you must inform your local law enforcement agencies about this planned operation. Regardless of who carries it out, the government of Azerbaijan is behind this planned act of terror.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n Milli and Muntezir say that a separate source within the Azerbaijani government has confirmed Zahid\u2019s allegations. They say they will inform the appropriate law enforcement agencies.\n<\/p>\n

\n This isn\u2019t the first time Meydan TV\u2019s founders have received death threats. In 2015, Emin Milli
\n
\n announced
\n <\/a>
\n that he received threats to his life from within the Azerbaijani government related to his criticism. When the EU Parliament confronted President Ilham Aliyev with the allegation in a
\n
\n 2015 resolution
\n <\/a>
\n , the president
\n
\n denied
\n <\/a>
\n the incident.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThere are several issues here which are based, whether intentionally or by mistake, on incorrect information,\u201d President Aliyev said. \u201cOne of them is related to the fact that journalists and civil society representatives are subjected to constant threats and harassment. Of these, the director of Meydan TV, Emin Milli, received death threats. This is a mistake and a lie. He was never threatened with death. I do not know why this is written here. Perhaps this is a part of another anti-Azerbaijan campaign.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n In February of this year, Milli
\n
\n announced
\n <\/a>
\n in the EU Parliament that he had received another death threat. \u201cAccording to our information,\u201d Milli said, \u201cAzerbaijan\u2019s intelligence services sent a group of athletes to Germany to attack me personally. One of the sources is the person who told us a few years ago that the diplomat and spy Tural Gurbanov had been sent to Germany to kill Habib Muntezir. Last time that plan resulted in the death of [Gurbanov].\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n Habib Muntezir says his life has been threatened several times. In 2013, he received information that the diplomat Tural Gurbanov was actually an Azerbaijani intelligence agent who had been sent to Germany to arrange Muntezir\u2019s murder. Shortly after Milli published the allegations on Facebook, Gurbanov was
\n
\n found dead
\n <\/a>
\n in the Maldives under suspicious circumstances.\n<\/p>\n

\n Emin Milli is a former political prisoner, who
\n
\n served
\n <\/a>
\n 17 months in prison for his criticism of the Azerbaijani government. Habib Muntezir has been a well-known political activist and blogger
\n
\n since 2005
\n <\/a>
\n . In 2013, the two activists created Meydan TV, an independent Azerbaijani media outlet based in Berlin. Since its inception, Meydan TV has faced constant pressure from the state and an ongoing
\n
\n criminal investigation
\n <\/a>
\n for refusing to censor critical views of the government.\n<\/p>\n

\n Ganimat Zahid is a journalist and former
\n
\n political prisoner
\n <\/a>
\n who served two and a half years in prison on trumped up charges of hooliganism. A resident of France since 2011, Zahid is the editor-in-chief of the independent
\n
\n Azadliq
\n <\/a>
\n newspaper as well as the founder of
\n
\n Turan TV
\n <\/a>
\n .\n<\/p>\n

\n Both
\n
\n azadliq.info
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\n and
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\n meydan.tv
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\n are blocked within Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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