{"id":165000,"date":"2025-07-01T19:01:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T15:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=165000"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:35:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:35:31","slug":"baku-court-takes-into-custody-sputnik-azerbaijans-head-and-chief-editor-for-4-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/165000\/","title":{"rendered":"Baku court takes into custody Sputnik Azerbaijan\u2019s head and chief editor for 4 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The court of Baku has taken into custody Head of Sputnik Azerbaijan Igor Kartavikh and Editor-in-chief Evgeny Belousov for four months, APA reports.<\/p>\n<p>To remind, Azerbaijan&rsquo;s Ministry of Internal Affairs announced a &ldquo;special operation&rdquo; at the Baku office of Sputnik Azerbaijan. The Moscow-based Sputnik agency told RIA Novosti that contact with the editorial office has not been established. In front of the building, Azerbaijan&rsquo;s Ministry of Internal Affairs patrol cars and black microbuses with tinted windows were parked.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Sputnik reported that Azerbaijani security forces had arrested two Russian journalists&mdash;Igor Kartavikh, head of the editorial board of Sputnik Azerbaijan, and Evgeny Belousov, the editor-in-chief&mdash;on absurd charges. According to reports from local media, the employees were accused of being &ldquo;FSB agents&rdquo; in a baseless manner.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The court of Baku has taken into custody Head of Sputnik Azerbaijan Igor Kartavikh and Editor-in-chief Evgeny Belousov for four months, APA reports. To remind, Azerbaijan&rsquo;s Ministry of Internal Affairs announced a &ldquo;special operation&rdquo; at the Baku office of Sputnik Azerbaijan. The Moscow-based Sputnik agency told RIA Novosti that contact with the editorial office has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":164838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,95,47,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-azerbeijan","category-society","category-law"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}