Azerbaijan jails two kids for making funny YouTube video critical of government
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MOSCOW — Late last month, a group of Azeri bloggers posted their latest tongue-in-cheek opus, a video in which a donkey holds a news conference before a circle of gravely nodding journalists. Dressed in a voluminous gray costume, Adnan Hajizada rhapsodizes over the lush life awaiting donkeys in Azerbaijan. To his audience — cosmopolitan young [...]
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Find the phone number and general email address for the Azerbaijani embassy in your country here. Azerbaijan embassy in DC: 202-337-3500 / 202-337-5912 UN Mission: 212-371-2559 Email a number of Azerbaijani officials by clicking here. MESSAGE: Free Andnan Hajizade and Emin Milli. The video is actually pretty funny (you can see it below) - it's subtitled in that almost-intentional Soviet-speak English that makes it even more unintentionally funny. Of course, being a good former-Soviet state, the Azeri government is still longing for the old days when citizens knew their place (somewhere in a gulag, if they were lucky):Two video bloggers from Azerbaijan are being held in prison by local authorities after uploading a satirical video to YouTube, according to a BBC News report. Andnan Hajizade and Emin Milli are part of a youth movement known as “OL !” that works towards a democratic civil society in Azerbaijan. The duo produced and uploaded a video of a press conference with a guy in a donkey suit in late June. The clip criticized Azerbaijan’s government for new laws against NGOs while making fun of staged government press conferences. The video makers were arrested in early July after allegedly taking part in a scuffle at a restaurant — a charge that has been widely criticized as being politically motivated and an attempt to legitimize censorship of the duo. Hajizade and Milli were officially charged with hooliganism, which could land them in prison for up to five years. Their trial is scheduled to begin this Friday. The video in question shows a donkey at a press conference, where uncritical journalists ask him questions like what kind of animal he would like to be in his next life. His answer is full of praise for his host country: “In Azerbaijan possibilities for donkeys are enormous. If you are donkey enough, you can succeed in possibly everything.”
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