A BOOK WAS CONFISCATED FROM THE HEAD OF IWPR LOCAL OFFICE IN BAKU REASONING THAT IT WAS PRINTED IN ARMENIA

17:51 10/06/2013 ” SOCIETY

In Baku, Azerbaijani customs officers confiscated a book from Shahin
Rzayev, the director of the local office of Institute for War and
Peace Reporting (IWPR), officially stating that “it was printed in
Armenia,” Rzaev wrote about this on his page on Facebook. He also
published the scan of the protocol.

“I announce with a sense of shame for the native state that at the
border I had an unfortunate incident. Our customs officers confiscated
a book of my colleagues written on the film shot by Tatul Hakobyan
titled “Karabakh Diary. Green and Black.” The official statement for
confiscation was “for the fact that it was published in Armenia.”

Neither my license of journalist, nor my reasoning about the fact,
that we must study the propaganda of our enemy in order to know how
to answer them back didn’t work on them,” he wrote on his wall.

According to Rzayev, the Azerbaijani customs officers replied that
“the whole world already knows all about it.”

Summing up, Shahin Rzayev, the director of the Azerbaijani office of
the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), writes: “I enclose
a protocol, let everyone know what kinds of idiots, sometimes, take
a decision in this country.”

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress