Azerbaijan can apply military censorship on media upon the declaration of martial law in the country.

This is according to Article 1.0.3 of the revised Law “On martial law”, the parliament told APA on Thursday.

Military censorship includes pre-coordination of mass media information by military and state authorities, control on correspondences for the purpose of preventing illegal dissemination of state secrets, on TV and radio broadcast as well as phone and radio talks.

The draft law has been recommended for the parliament’s plenary session.

Apa.az