{"id":193533,"date":"2019-01-17T00:36:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T00:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/article\/the-new-repressions-against-political-prisoners-in-azerbaijan\/"},"modified":"2019-01-17T00:36:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T00:36:45","slug":"the-new-repressions-against-political-prisoners-in-azerbaijan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/the-new-repressions-against-political-prisoners-in-azerbaijan\/","title":{"rendered":"The new repressions against political prisoners in Azerbaijan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n    <iframe\ttitle=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ilmucCx2TL8\"\tframeborder=\"0\"\tallow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n  <\/div><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\n  Three weeks ago, on 26 December 2018, popular blogger and political prisoner Mehman Huseynov started a hunger strike in protest against new charges that authorities fabricated against him just months before his scheduled release.After serving a two-year prison sentence on accusations of slander, he could now remain behind bars for up to seven more years. 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Azerbaijani authorities have been coming up with new last-minute charges against political prisoners in an attempt to keep tight control over some of the government&#8217;s most vocal critics, trying to stifle any hope that things could change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three weeks ago, on 26 December 2018, popular blogger and &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"The new repressions against political prisoners in Azerbaijan\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/the-new-repressions-against-political-prisoners-in-azerbaijan\/#more-193533\" aria-label=\"Read more about The new repressions against political prisoners in Azerbaijan\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":115992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","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 v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The new repressions against political prisoners in Azerbaijan - MEYDAN.TV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/the-new-repressions-against-political-prisoners-in-azerbaijan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The new repressions against political prisoners in Azerbaijan - MEYDAN.TV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Three weeks ago, on 26 December 2018, popular blogger and ... 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