\u201cI contacted Mrs. Alison Bethel McKenzie as soon as Eynulla Fatullayev had been freed and she was overjoyed to hear the news and she characterized it as \u201ca great day for press freedom\u201d. IPI has already given its official statement on Eynulla Fatullayev\u2019s release\u201d.<\/p>\n
U. Rahimogu, Chairperson of the IPI Azerbaijan National Committee also welcomed E. Fatullayev\u2019s release: \u201cActually from the beginning the IPI Azerbaijan National Committee took active participation in conducted negotiations and dialogues on E. Fatullayev\u2019s case. As you know, the IPI officials, IPI Director Alison Bethel McKenzie and Mr. Antony Mills, Press Freedom Manager visited Azerbaijan in February, 2011. During their visit in talks with the Azerbaijani presidential administration they also discussed E. Fatullayev\u2019s case. In March Mr. A. McKenzie addressed a letter to the President of the Republic and to the Ministry of Justice signed by nine of IPI\u2019s World Press Freedom Heroes. As the IPI Azerbaijan National Committee we highly appreciate E.Fatullayev\u2019s release. Ilham Aliyev, the President of the Azerbaijan Republic has again shown his humanism with this pardon decree. And we express our deepest gratitude to the President on behalf of the IPI Azerbaijan National Committee. We believe that the list of actions related to the development of media in Azerbaijan will be expanded in future. IPI Azerbaijan National Committee jointly with other media agencies would continue to establish constructive dialogue with the government in order to ensure total freedom of the press and to eradicate the existed challenges in the country\u201d. <\/p>\n
Information Department of the IPI Azerbaijan National Committee<\/b> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Umud Rahimoglu: \u201cI thank the President on behalf of the IPI Azerbaijan National Committee\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
IPI Director Alison Bethel McKenzie highly appreciated the pardon granted to Eynulla Fatullayev by Ilham Aliyev, the President of the Azerbaijan Republic and she expressed her happiness to hear this great news. Umud Rahimoglu, Chairperson of the IPI Azerbaijan National Committee said:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}