Baku. Farid Mirzayev – APA. Baku Court of Appeal adopted a decision on July 29 to revoke the license of Azerbaijan’s ANS Independent Broadcasting Media Company.
Baku Court of Appeal considered the lawsuit of Azerbaijan’s National Television and Radio Council on suspending the operation (canceling the license) of ANS Independent Broadcasting Media Company.
During the court session attended by representatives of international organizations and embassies in Azerbaijan, it was decided to cancel the license of ANS Independent Broadcasting Media Company.
The company has the right to file a cassation appeal to the Supreme Court.
ANS’s lawyer Ragif Mustafayev told APA that the court rejected the evidence presented by the company and decided to cancel the company’s license.
The company will file a cassation appeal to the Supreme Court, he added.
The Council adopted a decision to suspend the broadcasting of ANS from July 18 for a period of one month and to file a lawsuit to the court for withdrawing its license dated Oct. 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.
According to the Article 11 of the law “On the Television and Radio Broadcasting”, the state disallows terrorism, violence, cruelty, discrimination on ethnic, racial and religious grounds to be propagandized through television and radio.
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