Azerbaijani newspaper and TV station closed down

Azerbaijani authorities threw a leading opposition party and newspaper out of their offices Saturday, removing furniture and equipment a day after a court ordered the evictions. About 100 police surrounded the building housing the editorial offices of Azadliq, the largest opposition newspaper, and the Popular Front, a main opposition party, while law enforcement officers removed the organisations’ property and carted it away in trucks. The eviction came one day after Azerbaijan’s first independent television station, ANS television, was pulled from the air by the government. Authorities said the station had not extended its license. (The Moscow Times,November 27, 2006)

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