Updated: Azerbaijan bloggers receive prison sentences - USEFUL LINKS

Yesterday, on 11th November, Sabayel District "Court" of Baku presided by "Justice" Araz Huseynov convicted Azerbaijani bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade on faked and ridiculous charges and despite huge internal and international pressure. Both bloggers were accused of "attacking" and "beating" two sportsmen, one of them a Wushu master, despite huge evidence otherwise.

Despite the huge success of lawyers and huge failure of "prosecutors", "judge" simply ignored Aristotelian logic and common sense and sentenced Adnan Hajizade for two and Emin Milli for two and half years. No rationale was offered to explain term difference.

Our special thanks to the Azerbaijan government for they showed to whole world our "justice" at work. Otherwise, those today-here-tomorrow-at-home foreign officials from international organizations were not believing our veteran human rights activists when they were lamenting sad state of Azeri "justice."

And no more comments from me today - my feelings are beyond any words to express - only links to respectable news outlets and organizations which you can copy and paste into your emails and send to various instances. I have omitted new media, blogs and opinion pieces to avoid any pedantic attitudes

Updated: 03:31 am, 13 November

News:

Reuters: Court in Azerbaijan jails opposition bloggers

AFP: Azerbaijan condemned over jail terms for bloggers

AFP: US 'regrets' blogger jailings in Azerbaijan

AP: Azerbaijan opposition bloggers sentenced to jail

RFE/RL: Azeri Bloggers Receive Prison Sentences For 'Hooliganism'

New York Times: Azerbaijan Opposition Bloggers Sentenced to Jail (re-post of AP piece)

New York Times: Azerbaijan: Bloggers Convicted

CNN: 'Hooligan' satirists jailed in Azerbaijan

BBC News: Azeri bloggers given prison terms

Hurriyet Daily News: Azerbaijan jails two opposition bloggers

EurasiaNet: Azerbaijan: Court convicts youth activists and bloggers

Media Helping Media: Azerbaijan bloggers found guilty

Statements:

CPJ: Azerbaijani bloggers receive jail sentences

US State Department: Verdict in the Court Case of Imprisoned Youth Activists Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade

OSCE: OSCE media freedom representative protests sentence handed down to Internet journalists in Azerbaijan

CoE: Freedom of expression under pressure in Azerbaijan

RSF: Prison sentences for two bloggers condemned as “outrageous and unjust”

Amnesty International: Jailed Azerbaijani bloggers adopted as prisoners of conscience

Swedish Presidency-EU: Presidency Statement on Azerbaijan

German Foreign Office. Nooke protests against prison terms for two youth activists in Azerbaijan

Human Rights Watch. Azerbaijan: Young Bloggers Jailed

Freedom House. Bloggers’ Jailing Threatens New Media’s Emergence in Azerbaijan