Little Suad received a letter from her father detained in Azerbaijan · Global Voices
Arzu Geybullayeva

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Since 2016, Absaz media has been targeted with numerous denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, where a site is blocked for public access. In 2017, the website was blocked domestically, forcing the website managers to switch the website’s extension. In April 2020, the website was hacked in another cyberattack and, as a result, lost a month’s worth of published articles, and some of the articles’ headlines were tampered with. The platform was targeted again in February 2021.
Hasanli was sentenced on November 21, 2023, to four months’ pre-trial detention on a charge of “smuggling foreign currency.” If convicted, he is facing a possible eight-year prison sentence.