New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists has made a statement concerning the decision of Nasimi district court of Baku on prosecution and participation of journalist Agil Halil in the trial over the case of Sergey Strekalin, accused of inflicting a knife wound to Halil on March 13, 2008.

In Freelance collaborator of Liberty Radio, Sazak Durdimuradov is detained in Turkmenistan. As the radio informs, after the arrest, representatives of special services tortured the journalist demanding to refuse from cooperation with foreign mass media.

Court on Grave Crimes has sentenced chief editor of “Tolishi Sado” (Talish’s voice) newspaper, Novruzali Mamadov to ten years of custody for the high treason, www.day.az informs. Responsible secretary of the edition, Elman Guliyev was sentenced to six years of custody under the same Article.

Yesterday, the family of “Azadlig” newspaper’s chief editor, Ganimat Zahid met him in correctional facility №17, www.day.az informs referring to the Institute of Reporters’ Freedom and Safety citing the journalist’s spouse, Ayanda Mursaliyeva.

Recording decrease of profitability of newspaper advertisement, lasting the second year in a row, may result in closing of some editions and bankruptcy of a number of companies in the USA, The New York Times newspaper wrote on Monday.

Delegates of the fifth session of Azerbaijani journalists with a majority of voices reelected the Press Council chairman Aflatun Amashov to the same post. As “Novosti-Azerbaijan” informs, by means of voting they have formed a managing board and control-revision committees of the PC.

Issue concerning activity of democratic institutes in Azerbaijan will be considered at the PACE summer session on June 23. According to co-reporter of the PACE Monitoring Committee on Azerbaijan Eugenia Zhivkova, it was not certain yet in what form they will adopt resolution concerning our country.

Human rights organization ‘Amnesty International’ has awarded Iraqi woman journalist, Sahar al-Haideri, killed 7June, 2007, with recently set award in the sphere of mass media, British The Guardian informs.

The Nasimi district court of Baku rejected the claim of “Azadlig” newspaper’s collaborator, Agil Halil against the Public Prosecutor’s Office and State Frontier Service of Azerbaijan, www.day.az informs referring to the Institute of Reporters’ Freedom and Safety citing A. Halil personally.

On Sunday, 15 June, two local journalists were robbed and beaten in Vladivostok. As “Interfax” informs on Monday, collaborator of the news agency PrimaMedia and correspondent of periodical “Ezhednevnie novosti” (daily news) suffered from unknown civilians.

The Cosmos Communication Center of Kazakhstan could not restart operation of the only Kazakh satellite KazSat-1 that they lost a week ago, “Interfax” informs.

Associated Press news agency is to ban copying its texts to blogers’ diaries, The New York Times informs. AP representatives consider that bloggers with copying as the whole news as well as citations are violating the copyrights.