Wednesday, March 09, 2005

Azerbaijan - gun law the trigger ?

Having troublesome journalists murdered is a tactic authoritarian regimes have been happy to use in the past, so Azerbaijan's rulers have been rumoured to be involved in the murder of Elmar Husseinov, editor of the opposition Monitor magazine. If it's true, such a move could be short-sighted. With parliamentary elections due this year some are already comparing this, perhaps prematurely, to the murder of a campaigning journalist that was one of the triggers for the Ukrainian velvet revolution.
more from the IWPR...

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home