Azerbaijan reveals conditions for possible military censorship on media

  10 November 2016    Read: 922
Azerbaijan reveals conditions for possible military censorship on media
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 AzVision.az 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.

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