{"id":205924,"date":"2021-04-23T16:12:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T16:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/article\/friday-wrap-internet-connectivity-landmines-and-forced-vaccinations\/"},"modified":"2021-10-29T15:05:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T11:05:14","slug":"friday-wrap-internet-connectivity-landmines-and-forced-vaccinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/friday-wrap-internet-connectivity-landmines-and-forced-vaccinations\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Wrap-up: Internet connectivity, landmines, and forced vaccinations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The week of 19-23 April saw villagers bring the effect a lack of internet connection is having on their schoolchildren to light, further mine deaths and injuries, and allegations SOCAR is forcing its employees&#x27; family members to be vaccinated.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <b><br \/>\n    Poor internet stops children from attending school<br \/>\n  <\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Almost all villages in Azerbaijan have telephone lines and internet access but there are some exceptions, such as Baydovul village. Due to a lack of<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/d9mc3ts4czbpr.cloudfront.net\/en\/article\/poor-internet-stops-children-attending-school-goychay\/?utm_campaign=news&amp;utm_source=article&amp;utm_medium=social-media\"><br \/>\n    internet<br \/>\n  <\/a><br \/>\n  connection in the village, children haven\u2019t been able to get the education they need.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Village resident Nusrat Gurbanov told Meydan TV that &quot;high school students have to prepare for exams, graduates have to prepare for university, and the biggest tool here is the Internet. The Internet is as important to these children as air and water. It is as if civilization has not reached our village.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The villagers brought up the topic to the telecommunication authorities but it seems like there hasn\u2019t been any significant development so far.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <b><br \/>\n    The threat of hidden landmines<br \/>\n  <\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Arif Guliyev, a resident of Khojavend region, stepped on a landmine in Aghdam region on 17 April, leading to his leg being amputated. This isn\u2019t first time an Azerbaijani citizen was injured or killed by a landmine. Since the beginning of the Nagorno-Karabakh war, multiple people have died or were injured from the hidden landmines in the area. Even today, the number and the locations of the landmines are unknown.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <b><br \/>\n    2021 World Press Freedom Index<br \/>\n  <\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Azerbaijan was ranked 167 out of 180 countries in the<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/azerbaijan\"><br \/>\n    <i><br \/>\n      RSF\u2019s 2021 World Press Freedom Index<br \/>\n    <\/i><br \/>\n  <\/a><br \/>\n  , one spot higher than in 2020. Even though Azerbaijan\u2019s ranking increased, Azerbaijan&#x27;s media situation has consistently been assessed as &quot;very serious&quot; in the past years and has shown almost no improvement.\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/az\/capture-png-2\/\" alt=\"Capture.PNG\" class=\"wp-image-159687\"\/><figcaption>\n    Azerbaijan&#8217;s overview in the 2021 Index<br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\n  <b><br \/>\n    SOCAR Vaccinations<br \/>\n  <\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  SOCAR (State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic) has made COVID-19 vaccinations<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/socar-allegedly-demanding-employees-families-be-vaccinated\/?ref=list-news\"><br \/>\n    compulsory<br \/>\n  <\/a><br \/>\n  , not just for its employees, but allegedly also for their families.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  One worker&#x27;s son explained he was against vaccines, but wished he were given the right to choose. Employees are forced to put aside their concerns about the safety of the vaccine in order not to lose their job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 19-23 April overview from Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":159780,"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-205924","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 v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Friday Wrap-up: Internet connectivity, landmines, and forced vaccinations - 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\/friday-wrap-internet-connectivity-landmines-and-forced-vaccinations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Friday Wrap-up: Internet connectivity, landmines, and forced vaccinations - 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