Meydan TV

Founded by dissident blogger and former political prisoner Emin Milli in 2013,[2] Meydan TV publishes news in Azerbaijani, English, and Russian.

[4] During the 2015 European Games Azerbaijani channel Lider TV interviewed a local man who posed as a foreigner in order to create a "provocation".

[5] In 2015 it was reported that several Meydan TV journalists were prosecuted, arrested or received travel bans (including Aynura Ismayil, Shirin Abbasov, Ayten Farhadova and Aysel Umudova).

Meydan TV which put the number of military casualties at 94 instead of officially stated 31 compiled the list according to posts in social networks.

[7] Haqqin.az stated that soldier Aidyn Hasanov listed by Meydan TV among those killed was actually treated in a military hospital for arm injury.

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