Powers of Azerbaijani Press Council may be expanded

Proposals were made to expand the powers of the Azerbaijani Press Council  (PC), Vugar Rahimzadeh, a member of the PC Board and the chairman of the Commission on Combating Racket Journalism, said on Monday.

Proposals include giving the PC the power to suspend newspapers, he said.

These proposals would contribute to optimizing the PC’s fight against racket journalism, Rahimzadeh said.

"Sometimes, these newspapers continue their dirty activity in contrary to the PC decision. At a meeting of its Board last week, the PC took the decision to put two newspapers on the "black list".

They had been on the black list but were released from it after they corrected their activity. Now these newspapers again practice moments incompatible with the journalistic ethics and do not take warnings against them into account. Therefore, it was decided to appeal against the two newspapers to law enforcement agencies," said Rahimzadeh.

As a result of the council’s activity, the community now blames racket journalism. In this work, the PC receives backing from the healthy press.


/Trend/