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Photosession: Jailed Azeri Journalists, Brothers Ganimat and Sakit Zahidov at Their Fathers Funeral |
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December 23, 2008. Journalists Ganimat Zahid, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Azadlig was arrested in 2007 and sentenced to four years in jail. His brother Sakit Zahidov (a satirist writer of the same newspaper, better known as Mirza Sakit) had been sentenced to three years in jail in 2006. International media organizations, the Council of Europe and the OSCE believe the brothers were arrested on trumped-up charges because of their anti-government position. Azadlig newspaper is one of two major opposition newspapers in Azerbaijan.
On December 2, 2008, the brothers were temporarily let out of jail to attend their father's funeral, who died while they were serving their time. After the funeral they had to return back to jail.
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