CENSORSHIP IN JANUARY 2020
23 January
The import of prohibited religious literature into Azerbaijan has been halted
The State Committee for Work with Religious Structures
According to APA.AZ news agency, at a meeting at the State Committee for Work with Religious Structures (SCWRO) Jahandar Alifzade, the Head of the Department of Organizational work with the religious structures, talking about annual 2019 results said,
“In 2019, based on appeals received by the State Committee, 3,888 titles of religious literature were reviewed, 216 titles of literature propagating religious intolerance, discrimination and radicalism were prevented from importing into the country.”
721 items of religious literature and other banned goods confiscated by the law enforcement authorities and sent to SCWRO were also discussed at the meeting. It was found that 95 of them were harmful or had been imported and produced without authorization.