The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Ukrainian prosecutors to return the passport of Fikret Huseynli, a Dutch national of Azerbaijani origin, and to respect a district court’s April 2 ruling that the journalist should not be extradited to Azerbaijan or have his movements restricted.
Earlier on the day that the judge ruled, Kyiv prosecutor Serhiy Ostapets took Huseynli’s passport from a court secretary and left the courtroom, according to reports. Ostapets has refused to return the passport or give a reason for confiscating it, according to the Kyiv-based Institute for Mass Information and the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union.
