Yafez Hasanov threatened
Yafez Hasanov, an Azerbaijani Service correspondent for RFE/RL, has been subjected to threats since reporting on a suspicious death in a facility run by the National Security Ministry in 2011. Hasanov was threatened while in Istanbul, Turkey on May 9 by five thugs who broke into the apartment where he was staying. The men told Hasanov that they were from Naxichivan and “in the business of killing people.”