IREX Azerbaijan Closed

In summer IREX became the subject of progovernment newspaper articles accusing it of attempting to organize revolution in Azerbaijan.

Bank accounts of IREX were frozen in July and Baku office was raided in September as part of criminal case against local and foreign NGO.

On October 8, IREX’S Washington office announced the suspension of operations in Azerbaijan

Irex has worked in Azerbaijan since 1998.

With UGRAD and Muskie programs many Azerbaijani students got opportunity to study in the USA for one year.

IREX Deputy director Leon Morse has told to Liberty Radio on his interview “Wherever we work on independent media projects, the governments see us as a threat. He thinks that it is closed because some governments do not want to give room for independent media.

I feel really sorry that now Azerbaijan University students will not have chance to study in the USA Universities with UGRAD and MUSKIE Progams.

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