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IRFS condemns the arrest of a human rights activist in Azerbaijan. The Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety issued a statement calling on the country's authorities to immediately release Ilham Takhmazov
Communications and Information technology minister Ali Abbasov told the Azerbaijan Press Agency (APA) on 19 July that he wanted to set up an agency to supervise the Internet in Azerbaijan and prevent cyber-crimes.“This plan poses a potential threat to online free speech as its duties are very vague,” the two organisations said.
On 8 May, freelance journalist Ayten Mammadova was threatened by a knife-wielding man in the elevator of her apartment block. The man demanded that she stop writing about a trial she was covering, and warned that if she didn't he would 'deal' with her daughter.