Malahat Nasibova
Malahat Nasibova ( born March 6, 1969 in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union) is an Azerbaijani journalist and human rights activist. The former music teacher founded the human rights organization, Democracy and NGO Development Resource Center and reported, among other critically about the arbitrariness of the authorities in their home country, the Autonomous Republic of Nakhchivan.
Life
Malahat Nasibova was born in 1969 in the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Nakhchivan, which today is under Azerbaijani administration Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. She graduated in her native trained as a musician or a music teacher, which she completed in 1990. Then Nasibova worked for ten years as a teacher in the village school of Aliabad.
From 2000 Nasibova began working as a journalist and human rights activist. It acted in the beginning as a contact person for journalists of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty ( RFE / RL) to report the BBC and Voice of America (VOA ) and started on the social and political situation in Nakhchivan, whose head since the mid- 1990s years Vasif Talibov is. In 2002, Nasibova with the Democracy and NGO Development Resource Center, the first non-governmental organization in Nakhchivan and drew attention to human rights violations. She is still the head of this human rights organization, which was officially recognized by the authorities until 2004. 2003 Nasibova was himself a journalist for RFE / RL, the private and independent news agency Turan and Radio Azadliq while she was employed from 2003 to 2004 as chief editor of the local newspaper Bizim Naxçıvan ( "Our Nakhchivan City ").
Because of their critical reporting on the drug problem in Nakhchivan Nasibova was sued in June 2004 before the court by the director of national drug clinic. At the same time she and another journalist were threatened and made the authorities in their home region responsible for it. After local and international rights organizations had used for her, the lawsuit was withdrawn in April 2005. Then to the following years multiple anonymous threats, physical assaults and other reprisals against her and her husband Ilqar Nasibov be done, who has worked as a journalist and human rights activist.
The by former RFE / RL Director Jeffrey Gedmin as " fearless " described Nasibova reported in 2007 in a report on a 70 -year-old opposition activist who was arrested and forcibly placed in a psychiatric clinic. In December of the same year Nasibovas husband was sentenced to a 90-day jail sentence, after the pair had claims to have been at a market in Babək witnessed police violence and Lgar Nasibov had complained to the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Əliyev. At the same time her home and that of the Democracy and NGO Development Resource Center office were searched, confiscated computers and documents and Nasibova even briefly arrested. After the arrest Nasibovs the United States participated in the event position, yet another sentence was imposed for one year against Nasibov.
For their struggle for an independent and free press in Nakhchivan Nasibova in 2009 was awarded the Norwegian Rafto Prize. The Price organization, she praised as " a journalist who can not be force to silence " as well as a kind of " ombudsman " in the region, to someone who is entrusted to the local population without having to put their own safety at risk. " In the same year her husband and another employee of Nasibovas was attacked human rights organization, as they wanted to conduct a survey on corruption cases among students of the state university. At the same time to have been denied the injured medical help. In April 2010 Nasibova reported cyber attacks on the email accounts of their organization. In the same year, Human Rights Watch downgraded the situation in Nakhchivan as a " more serious " than in the other regions of Azerbaijan. 2012 Nasibova was "for her fearless work to the press, freedom of speech, democracy and human rights in Azerbaijan to defend " with the Swedish Press Freedom Award, the Award of the Swedish section of Reporters Without Borders honored.
In January 2013 Nasibova demonstrated peacefully in Baku with a hundred other people against downcast by police violence protest in the city İsmayıllı. She was then briefly detained along with her husband, the prominent bloggers Emin Milli, Zaur Gurbanli Bakhtiyar Hajiyev and also the journalists Shahveled Chobanoglu and Khadija Ismayilova. In response, the human rights organization Amnesty International appealed to the Euro Europe, while the procedure was publicly condemned by Reporters Without Borders. End of August 2013 reported the opposition newspaper Azadliq regarding the closing of numerous Internet cafes in Nakhchivan and a consequent risk of an information blockade, which was by official authorities but denied. Nasibova himself said in the context that the Internet cafes would be monitored by the authorities in their home region for years - including independent news websites were blocked and installed cameras. At the same time she complained that there would be only one state-controlled Internet provider in Nakhchivan, which could block and control the surfing speed as desired websites. Nasibova led back the regulatory action at the upcoming presidential elections in October and the growing political interest among young people.
From the marriage with Ilqar Nasibov three children. For safety reasons the two adult children living outside of Nakhchivan.
Awards
- 2009: Rafto Prize
- 2012: Swedish Press Freedom Award