Police dispersed journalist rally in Baku

PanARMENIAN.Net - Baku police dispersed an unauthorized protest action of journalists, who gathered to voice discontent with growing pressure on mass media. The law enforcers made an attempt to push Yeni Musavat newspaper's assistant editor Azer Ayhan and reporter Zabil Mugabiloglu into a police car, however, without success.



After a wrangle Yeni Musavat editor Rauf Arifoglu agreed to get into the police car. Later he was released.



After that journalists repeated the attempt to gather in Sabir park. However, policemen demanded to take away slogans and abandon the site.



Gundelik Azerbaijan editor Shahveled Chobanoglu, Yeni Musavat editor Rauf Airfoglu and Zabil Mugabirioglu were detained for disobedience to the police



The journalists were planning to picket the premises of BP-Azerbaijan company, However, the measure was postponed over the arrest of the editors, Day.az reports.