{"id":244666,"date":"2022-05-09T21:08:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T17:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/?p=244666"},"modified":"2022-05-09T21:08:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T17:08:28","slug":"azerbaijani-journalist-threatened-at-knifepoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/azerbaijani-journalist-threatened-at-knifepoint\/","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijani journalist threatened at knifepoint"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Journalist Ayten Mammadova was threatened at knifepoint last night in her apartment building while returning home with her daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An unknown man held a knife to her throat, puncturing her skin in two places, threatened her daughter, and demanded Mammadova stop writing about court cases. Ayten Mammadova&#8217;s most publicized case is the case of the abduction of 10-year-old Narmin Guliyeva in the village of Dondar Gushchu, Tovuz region, and the discovery of a burnt body in the village 47 days later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The neighbor of Narmin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/az\/article\/ilkin-suleymanov-hessas-yerlerime-elektrosok-verirdiler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ilkin Suleymanov<\/a>, is being tried for her murder, but the journalists believes he is being used as a scapegoat to cover up the actual perpetrator or perpetrators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mammadova said she also received a similar threatening call at their home 20 days ago. She believes that this attack and the phone call may be related to her coverage of the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interior Ministry press service spokesperson Elshad Hajiyev stated they have opened a criminal case into the attack and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/azerbaijans-new-media-law-through-a-journalists-eyes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Media Development Agency <\/a>also contacted Mammadova, and said they had been in contact with the Interior Ministry about the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While police violence and detentions are not unusual for journalists in Azerbaijan, physical, near-lethal and lethal attacks on journalists by those other than uniformed police are relatively rare in comparison. At first glance, the attack and threatening of Mammadova brings to mind a more lethal attack, specifically the murder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/fbi-case-file-shows-how-azerbaijan-botched-investigation-into-journalists-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">journalist Elmar Huseynov <\/a>in his apartment building in 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist Ayten Mammadova was threatened at knifepoint last night in &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Azerbaijani journalist threatened at knifepoint\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/azerbaijani-journalist-threatened-at-knifepoint\/#more-244666\" aria-label=\"Read more about Azerbaijani journalist threatened at knifepoint\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":244632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-en","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>Azerbaijani journalist threatened at knifepoint - 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\/azerbaijani-journalist-threatened-at-knifepoint\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Azerbaijani journalist threatened at knifepoint - MEYDAN.TV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Journalist Ayten Mammadova was threatened at knifepoint last night in ... 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