“This closed information system of Azerbaijan grown for years where there is a very strict censorship, where the editor is called to the prosecutor’s office for spreading an Armenian video, where a man can be imprisoned for slamming the authorities did not work,” said the Coordinator of Razminfo website, Karen Vrtanesyan, at the meeting with the journalists at the “Post Scriptum” press club on March 7. He noted that the Azerbaijani authorities are not used to work in the free system, “Their same disinformation is not working for the people no longer believe it and are laughing at. Most interestingly, in those days, we also began to give news in Azerbaijani for Azerbaijani readers, and over thousands of Azerbaijanis joined the “Razminfo” page and began to follow our posts.
It’s true, they were working hard to make us close the page for Azerbaijan, they were writing swear words, posting photos of dead bodies, sending complaints to the “Facebook” to block our page. As a result, they were unable to block the page, moreover, we opened a separate page for especially Azerbaijani readers in Azerbaijani language. And no matter how hard they were urging their users not to enter our page to read and comment, the more Azerbaijanis were writing letters to us so that we are not even able to reply to them all. Incidentally, the significant part of them was swear words, there are more serious posts, people are interested, people are saying that actually, Armenians disseminated information about the identities of those killed faster than the official Azerbaijani sources”. Karen Vrtanesyan does not rule out that at some point, the Azerbaijani authorities may shut down the “Facebook” social network, “They are unable to say anything in open discussion and open debate platforms.”
