The Committee to protect the Azerbaijani journalists rights RUH will publicize the result of monitoring of the situation with the freedom of opinion and press in Azerbaijan. The announcement was made at a roundtable held at the International press club on 1 May in connection with the results of the monitoring.
Hugug Salmanov, the chairman of the Committee, announced that the monitoring held by his organization included the facts registered over the past 7 months. The key objective of the event was to study the situation in media on the eve of the re-run parliamentary elections scheduled for 13 May, determine the directions of the activities during the post-elections period. :the same time the monitoring included data on classification of lawsuits filed on media, fine imported on the media, as well as pressures in journalists, Salmanov underlined.
The monitoring by RUH was held with the financial support of the Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation.