{"id":42315,"date":"2026-01-21T13:09:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iolr.org\/?p=42315"},"modified":"2026-01-21T13:50:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:50:30","slug":"the-supreme-court-of-azerbaijan-upheld-the-sentence-of-a-blackmailing-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/?p=42315&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan upheld the sentence of a blackmailing journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan concluded a cassation appeal hearing against Asim Aliyev, who is accused of extortion through threats, <a href=\"https:\/\/oxu.az\/ru\/kriminal\/verhovnyj-sud-azerbajdzhana-ostavil-v-sile-prigovor-zhurnalistu-shantazhistu\">oxu.az<\/a> reports. The ruling was announced during the trial, presided over by Judge Zaur Huseynov, dismissing the appeal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">A. Aliyev, the owner of the Saatl\u0131 TV channel and the 13Asim13 TikTok profile, was detained by the Main Department for Combating Organized Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Azerbaijan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Posing as an independent journalist, Asim Aliyev threatened officials with disseminating negative information about them on his social media accounts and channels, demanding various sums of money in exchange for their silence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">By the decision of the Lankaran Court of Grave Crimes, Asim Aliyev was sentenced to six years and six months in prison.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan concluded a cassation appeal hearing against Asim Aliyev, who is accused of extortion through threats, oxu.az reports. The ruling was announced during the trial, presided over by Judge Zaur Huseynov, dismissing the appeal. A. Aliyev, the owner of the Saatl\u0131 TV channel and the 13Asim13 TikTok profile, was detained by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42316,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42315\/revisions\/42316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iolr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}