IKKE NOE NYTT ER IKKE GODE NYHETER I ASERBAJDSJAN

Etter at jeg kom hjem fra feltarbeid i Aserbajdsjan har jeg fått publisert denne saken på nettsidene til det norske menneskerettshuset (på engelsk):

No news is not good news regarding freedom of expression in Azerbaijan http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/14762.html

(Dessverre uten byline som "bevis", men det er slik de opererer med alle sakene sine)

Last day in Baku

What a journey this has been! Thank you, dear reader, for following my different experiences here in my blog. It has meant a lot to me to able to share my days away with you. I spescially like the ones that comment on some of the posts, thank you! 

This journey is now comming to its end, I'm just going to Tbilisi, Georgia for one quick day, and then I'm home.

With this I would like to share just a little glimt of the last days here in Baku. I have been attending a lot of different work related arangements the last couple of days.

At the Nato anniversary in Baku.
Here with the leader of the uposition parti in Baku, Isa Quambar

Me, a british journalist, the american representative, ambassador Jon Ramberg and Sian


As an audience in the court of the prosecuted journalist Eynulla Fatullayev.
http://www.irfs.az/component/option,com_datsogallery/Itemid,30/func,detail/catid,500/id,4922/lang,az/ The norwegian journalist Erling Borgen is now making a documentary about his case. Even the European Court of Human Rights have demanded that the Azerbaijanian regim should release him.

Working day

There was a student demonstration in Baku today. I was there with Emin Hoseinov from Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS). More than 100 students were arrested by the police.




Yesterday I was at NATOs 61-years jubileeum (since its establisement) with the norwegian ambassador Jon Ramberg, and there I made many other inportant contacts.

Russlandmimring og Aserbajdsjan-lykke :-)

Aa... selv om beinet mitt er litt skadet naa, og jeg egentlig fryser ganske mye her i drittvaeret i Baku, saa har jeg et smil om munnen. For disse to jentene, fra USA og Australia som jeg har blitt kjent med her... vi har bare opplevd saa utrolig mye flott sammen! Her er litt fra det som har vaert.

Venter paa aa dra videre til Baku..

Gazprom

Meg etter aa ha tatt sitron i haaret. Vil ha lyst haar ;-) Bildet er tatt paa hostellet der jeg har bodd i Baku.


Kelly og Jackie fra USA og Australia! I Love you guys! Kelly bor i Moskva da, saa hun er kommunikasjonsmiddelet her nede ;-) De traff jeg paa Caspian Hostell i Baku, men naa har de dratt videre. Buhu... :-( Savner dere allerede!


Olje pipler bokstavelig talt opp av bakken her!

Mud vulcanoes!

Kelly on the local masrutka!

Fire temples



The doors are a little bit too smaal for Jackie here...







Fire mountains. Azerbaijan means "The Land of Fire"









Just messing around... :-)




Xinaliq













Crazy man for wanting me to run down those hils! It had to end with...

...this

But now worries, I'm fine. :-) It was just a bit painful.

Dinner the local way was nice

Sian har endelig kommet! :-D

Juhu! Hun har masse interessant aa fortelle fra Usbekistan og Turkmenistan! Naa planlegges den videre ferd for fullt. Kanskje blir det en tur til Georgia :-D

PS: Regn og daarlig vaer her akkurat naa daa...kjedlig.

Litt fra Aserbajdsjan

Det har blitt reisedag nummer 11. Her er litt fra Aserbajdsjan saa langt. Venter fremdeles paa Sian, som kommer paa loerdag. I dag er det torsdag.