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Azerbaijan Charges Journalist With Spying For Armenia

April 21, 2014
Azerbaijani authorities have formally charged a prominent journalist with high treason over allegations he spied for Azerbaijan’s rival, Armenia.

The Prosecutor-General's Office said in a statement April 21 that Rauf Mirkadyrov "was recruited by the Armenian secret services in 2008 and supplied Yerevan with information on Azerbaijan's state secrets.”

Mirkadyrov has been ordered to stay in pre-trial custody for the next three months as investigators pursue the case.

The Prosecutor-General's Office said Mirkadyrov is accused of meeting with Armenian agents several times in Armenia, Georgia, and Turkey and providing them with images and documents that damaged Azerbaijan’s security and defense capabilities.

Mirkadyrov is a correspondent for the Russian-language newspaper "Zerkalo," which is published in Azerbaijan.

He was detained in Baku after he was deported from Turkey on April 19.

Azerbaijan and Armenia remain locked in hostilities over disputed Nagorno-Karabakh, the Azerbaijani territory that was seized by Armenian-backed separatists during a war in the early 1990s.

Rights groups consider Azerbaijan’s government to be among the most repressive of journalists in the world.

http://www.rferl.org/content/azerbaijan-charges-journalist-with-spying-for-armenia/25357221.html

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The front line at the junction of the borders of Armenia, Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan.

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Azerbaijan Arrests Prominent Journalist For Espionage PDF Print E-mail

By Liz Fuller, RFE/RL

BAKU. April 21, 2014: Rauf Mirkadyrov, a commentator for the independent Russian-language daily "Zerkalo," was taken into custody by security personnel at Baku's Heydar Aliyev airport on April 19 after being deported from Turkey, where he had lived with his family for the past three years.

Mirkadyrov's lawyer, Faud Agayev, said on April 20 that the prosecutor-general's office is charging his client with state treason, specifically with espionage. Agayev added that Mirkadyrov is being held at the detention center of the National Security Ministry and cannot be visited by lawyers until April 22.

According to Mirkadyrov's wife Adelya Babakhanova, Turkish police approached them on a bus in Ankara on April 18, claiming that Mirkadyrov's residence and work permits had expired, although they had been extended until the end of the year. ("Zerkalo" says his accreditation was valid until September, but was revoked without explanation two weeks ago.) Mirkadyrov was taken to a police station. Babakhanova was informed later the same day that her husband would be deported; the reasons were not specified.

Mirkadyrov is a veteran commentator widely respected for his analysis of a wide range of issues, including Azerbaijan's relations with Russia and Turkey and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. His most recent published article analyzed Russia's recent moves in Ukraine, and their implications for the South Caucasus.

Emin Guseynov, who heads the Institute of War and Peace Reporting's Baku office, described him as "a well-known journalist with liberal views," who systematically criticizes human rights violations in Azerbaijan, Turkey, and elsewhere.

Prior to takeoff in Ankara, Mirkadyrov reportedly telephoned a colleague, Zaur Bayramli, and told him that his problems with the Turkish authorities started immediately after the April 7 visit to Baku by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whom Mirkadyrov is said to have criticized on more than one occasion.

Bayramli is quoted as saying Mirkadyrov believes Ankara acceded to a demand by the Azerbaijani authorities for his extradition, given that he had not written anything that might have offended the Turkish government.

But the website musavat.com reportedly quoted Elsever Agayev, the press secretary of the Azerbaijan Republic embassy in Ankara, as telling journalists that Baku played no part in Mirkadyrov's deportation.

Mirkadyrov is not the first Azerbaijani journalist to be deported from Turkey this year.

Makhir Zeynalov was expelled from Turkey in February after police accused him of an unspecified violation of the law.

Zeynalov contributed articles for the Turkish daily "Today's Zaman." He attributed his expulsion to his criticism of the Turkish government and of Prime Minister Erdogan personally.

http://azerireport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4302&Itemid=42

(the source is roughly the Azerbaijani equivalent of Hetq)

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The front line at the junction of the borders of Armenia, Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan.

Location is roughly here: http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=40...11865&z=10&m=b

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Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. "Ehnikner" Mountain Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division

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Armenian Army

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Air defence system

S300 PMU2 Favorit, Barak 8, Green Pine, S200 Dubna, S-125 2TM Pechora, Buk M1-2, Tor, OSA 1T, Krug