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Azerbaijani ANS radioâ€™s license cancelled

19 July 2016 11:51 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Farid Mirzayev – APA. Azerbaijan’s National Television and Radio Council has passed a decision to cancel the license of the ANS Broadcasting Media Company for several cases of violations of the law during the radio broadcasting, Council Chairman Nushiravan Maharramli, told APA on July 19.

According to the law, the operation of a radio broadcaster can be terminated in case of the numerous application of responsibility measures, said Maharramli.

He added that a lawsuit will be filed to the court for withdrawing the license of the ANS Broadcasting Media Company

The broadcasting of ANS TV channel has been suspended for one month.

The Council had a meeting on July 18.

The Council adopted a decision to suspend the broadcasting of ANS TV channel from 18:30 pm (Baku time) July 18 for a period of one month and to file a lawsuit to the court for withdrawing the TV channel’s license dated October 25, 2013.

This decision was made given the appeal of the Prosecutor General’s Office, dated July 18, 2016, as well as the requirements of the articles 11, 23 and 32 of the law “On the Television and Radio Broadcasting”, in order to prevent the provocation aimed at undermining the strategic cooperation relations between Turkey and Azerbaijan and not to allow the open propaganda of terrorism.

In December 2015, the ANS radio broadcaster was fined a total of 161,000 manats for violating the requirements of the laws “On TV and radio broadcasting” and “On advertisement” during live broadcasting.