However, it could hardly be called a press conference. While the heads of observers spoke of limited environment and legal framework for the media to cover the election process transparently, today’s press conference was nothing, but limitation of journalists’ rights. Gathered in a stuffy room for over 2 hours, what we heard was a number of statements as a response to journalists, who tried to disrupt the conference. The statements delivered were what we could have easily read online or from the press release they produced afterwards. We, media representatives, were not given an opportunity to pose our questions and receive a direct answer to them. A member of AzVision English also expressed her comments directly to the observation team.
Sorry, but press conferences should not be a platform for long explanations, but should grant equal opportunities to every journalist, who has a question. Isn’t that a limitation of a journalists’ right to produce a transparent report and violation of freedom of speech?
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