Azerbaijan, Baku, 14 March / Trend corr K. Ramazanova/ "The stabbing of the Azadlig newspaper's journalist is a dirty crime and we are shocked," the US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Ann Derse said to journalists on 14 March after her visiting the victim.
"Such violence against journalists is an attempt at silencing significant voices and to create a shocking atmosphere," she said.
On 13 March, at 8.00pm Agil Khalil, a journalist of the Azadlig newspaper, was stabbed in the chest by unknown assailants. He was immediately taken to the Clinical Medical Centre where he was operated on.
According to the Ambassador, the Azerbaijanis who love freedom share the same anger and disappointment of the Americans. Derse also noted that ensuring that the guilty parties are made answerable would show leadership of law and freedom of speech in Azerbaijan.