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May 5th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda In its latest report published on May 1, AI said it “believes the charges against Anar Bayramli were fabricated in retaliation for his work as a reporter” and, therefore, he should be considered a political prisoner.
Referring to recent arrests of Bayramli and Ramin Bayramov, editor-in-chief of the Islamic news website Islam-Azeri, the AI said the secular government of Azerbaijan has arrested them on false charges in order to prevent the free flow of information, especially on religious matters.
Noting that there are 18 prisoners of conscience in Azerbaijan right now, AI stated that Baku is trying to silence the opposition ahead of a 2012 music event, by resorting to illegal means.
Amnesty International also stated that “journalists and human rights defenders [have been] threatened, harassed, and even beaten unconscious by state officials” over the last two months.
On February 18, Azerbaijan’s police and plainclothes forces arrested two IRIB employees in the capital city of Baku. The detainees, the IRIB correspondent, Anar Bayramli, and a local driver, Ramil Dadash, were transferred to the Central Police Department on charges of “carrying illicit drugs.”
On February 18, Press Secretary of the Iranian Embassy in Baku said the arrest of the IRIB employees was directed toward damaging the bilateral media cooperation between the two neighboring countries.
“The move is against the policies and efforts of high-ranking Azeri officials, especially Azeri president’s special envoy to Tehran Ali Hasanov who has tried to implement further media cooperation agreement between the two countries,” Abbas Eskandari added.
The detention of the two IRIB employees comes with a new wave of arrests of Muslim activists and anti-government protestors in the Caspian Sea littoral state.
Azerbaijan also refused entry to a senior IRIB official upon arrival at Heydar Aliyev International Airport in December 2011. Director of the IRIB office in Baku Ahmad Kazemi was stopped by customs officials and forced to take the return flight to Tehran on the same day.
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