Azerbaijani “Turan” reports the Freedom House has made a report on Azerbaijan and stated the mass media is not free, the internet – partially free in Azerbaijan. As it becomes clear from the report, the internet access in the cities is more or less available. This however is not the case in rural regions. A number of web-sites have been blocked because of their opposition looks. A number of arrests, verdicts and physical force were used against people who expressed their views on the government via social web-sites. A number of students in the high educational institutions were threatened to be punished in case they get engaged into political activism.
In 2011 November a famous publicist Rafik Tagi was killed who reported a critical review on Iranian government a couple of days before his death.
It was also clear from the report that the government has the right to interfere and listen to telephone calls without any court decision.
It has been 5 years the Freedom House considers Azerbaijan as a “not-free country”.
