Azerbaijan: Bloggers to require registration? · Global Voices
Onnik Krikorian

As the use of new and social media starts to surface in the run-up to the 7 November parliamentary election in Azerbaijan, In Mutatione Fortitudo reports that there are now calls for bloggers to be considered similar to journalists. While on the surface such a suggestion sounds positive, the accompanying quote implies that those bloggers not registered with the Ministry of Justice could therefore be considered as engaging in illegal activities. Azerbaijan already has two video blogging youth activists serving sentences in prison despite significant international outcry.