Azerbaijan’s ANS says will appeal to relevant authorities against judgment on license cancellation

  29 July 2016    Read: 1267
Azerbaijan’s ANS says will appeal to relevant authorities against judgment on license cancellation
Azerbaijan’s ANS Independent Broadcasting Media Company said on Friday that it will file an appeal to the country’s relevant authorities against the judgment passed by the Baku Court of Appeal on the cancellation of the company’s license.
“We don’t agree with the judgment of the Baku Court of Appeal on the cancellation of the license of ANS Independent Broadcasting Media Company, and we will file an appeal to the relevant authorities in this regard,” said the company director general Mirshahin Aghayev.

On July 29, the Baku Court of Appeal considered Azerbaijan’s National Television and Radio Council on suspending the operation (canceling the license) of ANS Independent Broadcasting Media Company. The court passed a decision to cancel the company’s license.

The National Television and Radio Council adopted a decision to suspend the broadcasting of ANS from 18:30 (UTC/GMT +4 hours) July 18 for a period of one month and to file a lawsuit to the court for withdrawing its license dated October 25, 2013.

The decision was made given the appeal of the Prosecutor General’s Office, dated July 18, 2016, as well as the requirements of the articles 11, 23 and 32 of the law “On the Television and Radio Broadcasting”, in order to prevent the provocation aimed at undermining the strategic cooperation relations between Turkey and Azerbaijan and not to allow the open propaganda of terrorism.

According to the Article 11 of the law “On the Television and Radio Broadcasting”, the state disallows terrorism, violence, cruelty, discrimination on ethnic, racial and religious grounds to be propagandized through television and radio.

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