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Azerbaijan: IPI demands immediate release of Abzas Media director Ulvi Hasanli

The IPI global network demands the immediate release from custody of Ulvi Hasanli, the director of Abzas Media, an independent news outlet in Azerbaijan. On Monday, searches were carried out at the Baku office of Abzas media, soon after Hasanli was detained. According to the media outlet, Hasanli has already been beaten while under police […]

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‘Journalists are not legitimate targets’: Pegasus hacks amidst a war

Researchers have been tracking the use of cyber surveillance software to target journalists for years, but until now no government has ever been caught using it during an active international conflict. New revelations from digital rights researchers and advocates uncovered the targeting of public officials and journalists with Pegasus spyware during the 2020 war between […]

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IPI condemns use of Pegasus spyware against journalists amidst Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict

The IPI global network is alarmed by a new report by internet watchdogs and digital rights advocacy groups uncovering the use of Pegasus, a controversial spyware developed by the Israeli cyber-arms company NSO Group, to target journalists and other civil society actors during the ongoing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The latest revelations are another […]

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Two Azeri journalists killed in landmine blast

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed sadness over the deaths of two journalists in Azerbaijan’s Kalbajar district in an apparent landmine explosion on June 4. Meherrem Ibrahimov worked as a journalist for the state news agency Azertac and Sirac Abishov was working as a cameraman for state television broadcaster AZTV. According to media reports […]

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