Baku, Azerbaijan, July 19
By Elchin Mehdiyev – Trend:
Court will decide on the future of ‘ANS Broadcasting Media Company’, Nushiravan Maharramli, head of Azerbaijan’s National Council for Television and Radio, told Trend July 19.
“From now on, this issue is in the competence of the judicial authorities,” he said. “We have appealed to the court and it will make a decision.”
Broadcasting of ‘ANS Broadcasting Media Company’ was suspended for one month, said the National Council for Television and Radio July 19.
The Council adopted a decision to suspend the broadcasting of ANS from 18:30 (UTC/GMT +4 hours) July 18 for a period of one month and to file a lawsuit to the court for withdrawing its license dated Oct. 25, 2013.
The decision was made given the appeal of the Prosecutor General’s Office, dated July 18, 2016, as well as the requirements of the articles 11, 23 and 32 of the law “On the Television and Radio Broadcasting”, in order to prevent the provocation aimed at undermining the strategic cooperation relations between Turkey and Azerbaijan and not to allow the open propaganda of terrorism.