Malahat Nasibova

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Malahat Nasibova (born March 6, 1969 in Nakhchivan , Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic , Soviet Union ) is an Azerbaijani journalist and human rights activist . The former music educator founded the human rights organization Democracy and NGO's Development Resource Center and reported critically, among other things, on the arbitrariness of the authorities in her home country, the autonomous republic of Nakhchivan .

Life

Malahat Nasibova was born in 1969 in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic , which is now under Azerbaijani administration. She completed an apprenticeship as a musician or music teacher in her home country, which she completed in 1990. As a result, Nasibova worked for ten years as a teacher in the Aliabad Community School.

From 2000, Nasibova began working as a journalist and human rights activist. She initially acted as a contact person for journalists from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE / RL), the BBC and Voice of America (VOA) and began to report on the social and political situation in Nakhchivan, the head of which since the mid-1990s - Years Vasif Talibov is. In 2002, Nasibova founded the Democracy and NGO's Development Resource Center, the first non-governmental organization in Nakhchivan, and drew attention to human rights violations. To this day she is the head of this human rights organization, which was only officially recognized by the authorities in 2004. In 2003 Nasibova herself became a journalist at RFE / RL, the private and independent news agency Turan and Radio Azadliq , while from 2003 to 2004 she was employed as editor-in-chief of the local newspaper Bizim Naxçıvan ("Our Naxçıvan").

Because of her critical reporting on the drug problem in Nakhchivan, Nasibova was sued in court by the head of the national drug clinic in June 2004. At the same time, she and another journalist were threatened, blaming the authorities in her home region. The lawsuit was withdrawn in April 2005 after regional and international legal organizations stood up for her. As a result, several anonymous threats, physical attacks and further reprisals against her and her husband Ilqar Nasibov, who also works as a journalist and human rights activist, are said to have taken place in the following years.

Nasibova, described by the then RFE / RL director Jeffrey Gedmin as "fearless" , reported in a report in 2007 about a 70-year-old opposition activist who was arrested and forcibly committed to a psychiatric hospital. In December of the same year, Nasibova's husband was sentenced to a 90-day prison term after the couple claimed to have witnessed police violence in a market in Babək and Lgar Nasibov complained to Azerbaijani President İlham Əliyev . At the same time, her home and the office of the Democracy and NGO's Development Resource Center were searched, computers and documents were confiscated, and Nasibova himself was briefly arrested. After Nasibov's arrest, the United States took a position on the case, but Nasibov was sentenced to another year in prison.

In 2009, Nasibova was awarded the Norwegian Rafto Prize for her fight for an independent and free press in Nakhchivan . The award organization praised as a "journalist who can not be forced to silence" as well as a kind of " ombudsman " in the region, to someone who the local population entrusted without their own safety to have to gamble. Is " In the same Year, her husband and another employee of Nasibova's human rights organization were attacked while trying to question students at the state university on corruption cases. At the same time, medical help is said to have been denied to the injured. In April 2010, Nasibova reported cyber attacks on her organization's email accounts. That same year, Human Rights Watch rated the situation in Nakhchivan as "even more serious" than in the rest of Azerbaijan. In 2012, Nasibova was honored with the Swedish Press Freedom Award , the award of the Swedish section of Reporters Without Borders , “for her fearless work to defend freedom of the press, freedom of speech, democracy and human rights in Azerbaijan” .

In January 2013, Nasibova demonstrated peacefully in Baku with a hundred other people against protests in the city of İsmayıllı, which were suppressed by police violence . She was then briefly imprisoned with her husband, the prominent bloggers Emin Milli, Zaur Gurbanli and Bakhtiyar Hajiyev and the journalists Shahveled Chobanoglu and Khadija Ismayilova. The human rights organization Amnesty International then turned to the Council of Europe , while Reporters Without Borders publicly condemned the action. At the end of August 2013, the opposition newspaper Azadliq reported on the closure of numerous Internet cafés in Nakhchivan and the threat of an information blockade, which was denied by official authorities. Nasibova himself said in connection that the Internet cafes in her home region had been officially monitored for years - among other things, independent news websites were blocked and cameras were installed. At the same time, she complained that there would only be one state-controlled Internet provider in Nakhchivan who could block websites and control surfing speed at will. Nasibova attributed the government action to the upcoming presidential election in October and the growing political interest of young people.

The marriage to Ilqar Nasibov had three children. For security reasons, the two adult children live outside of Nakhchivan.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c curriculum vitae  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at raftohuset.no, September 24, 2009 (English, PDF file; accessed October 10, 2012; 657 kB).@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.raftohuset.no  
  2. ↑ Musavat, Yeni: Azeri exclave registers first NGO . In: BBC Summary of World Broadcasts , October 28, 2004, p. 2.
  3. ↑ Musavat, Yeni: Azeri journalist in Naxcivan exclave under pressure for critical reports . In: BBC Summary of World Broadcasts , June 11, 2004, p. 2.
  4. ↑ Musavat, Yeni: Journalists in Azeri exclave complain about authorities' pressure . In: BBC Summary of World Broadcasts , June 15, 2004 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
  5. ↑ Turan News Agency: Azeri drug clinic calls off lawsuit against journalist . In: BBC Summary of World Broadcasts , April 6, 2005 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
  6. ↑ Turan News Agency: Azeri exclave mayor has journalists thrown out of exhibition . In: BBC Monitoring Trans Caucasus Unit , May 23, 2005, Baku, 10:00 GMT.
  7. ^ Turan News Agency: Azeri reporter detained briefly in Naxcivan agency . In: BBC Monitoring Trans Caucasus Unit , June 24, 2005, Baku, 10:10 GMT.
  8. ↑ Musavat, Yeni: Independent reporter warned to leave Azeri exclave-paper . In: BBC Monitoring Trans Caucasus Unit , October 24, 2005, p. 2.
  9. ^ Turan News Agency: Police reportedly threatening village shopkeepers in Azeri exclave . In: BBC Monitoring Trans Caucasus Unit , November 8, 2007 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
  10. ↑ Radio Liberty reporter in Azerbaijan said threatened with death . In: BBC Monitoring Trans Caucasus Unit , January 30, 2009 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
  11. ↑ Turan News Agency: Rights champ, journalist said beaten up in Azeri exclave . In: BBC Monitoring Trans Caucasus Unit , July 27, 2011 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
  12. ^ Radio Free Europe: RFE / RL Reporter Wins Prestigious Human Rights Prize . September 24, 2009 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
  13. ↑ a b Radio Free Europe: RFE / RL Reporters Beaten in Azeri Exclave . August 27, 2008 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
  14. ^ Radio Free Europe: Azerbaijan: RFE / RL Journalist Jailed For Slandering Police . December 6, 2007 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
  15. ↑ Associated Press Worldstream: Rights group in Azerbaijan says office searched, member detained . December 7, 2007, 8:43 PM GMT (accessed via LexisNexis Economy ).
  16. ↑ Azeri journalists urge investigation into Radio Liberty reporter's arrest . In: BBC Monitoring Trans Caucasus Unit . December 7, 2007 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
  17. ↑ AFP : US 'disturbed' by imprisonment of journalist in Azerbaijan . December 8, 2007, 3:13 AM GMT.
  18. ↑ Official press release  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at raftohuset.no (PDF file, German; accessed on October 10, 2012; 755 kB).@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.raftohuset.no  
  19. ^ Azerbaijan: Rights activists attacked in Naxcivan . In: BBC Monitoring Trans Caucasus Unit . December 16, 2009 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
  20. ↑ Right activists in Azeri exclave report cyber attacks . In: BBC Monitoring Trans Caucasus Unit , April 6, 2010 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
  21. ↑ FIDH : Common statement on human rights in Azerbaijan . In: News Press , June 22, 2010 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
  22. ^ Radio Free Europe : Former RFE / RL Naxchivan Correspondent Wins Swedish Press Prize . May 1, 2012 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
  23. ^ Radio Free Europe: Protesters Detained In Azerbaijani Capital . January 26, 2013 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
  24. ↑ a b BBC Monitoring World Media: RSF outraged by "brutal treatment" of journalists in Azerbaijan . January 29, 2013 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
  25. ^ Wisniewski, Dan (Radio Free Europe): Amnesty Demands Action For Detained Protesters In Azerbaijan . January 29, 2013 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
  26. ↑ BBC Monitoring Trans Caucasus Unit: Azeri rights activist says internet clubs in exclave closed due to election . August 30, 2013 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
  27. ↑ Petrosyan, Tigran: An opinionated freethinker . In: the daily newspaper , May 3, 2012, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Nasibova, Malahat
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Azerbaijani journalist and human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Nakhchivan , Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic , Soviet Union