{"id":65253,"date":"2024-06-29T00:44:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T15:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/28\/journalists-refused-entry-to-azerbaijan-energy-conference-ahead-of-cop29"},"modified":"2024-06-29T00:44:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T15:44:17","slug":"journalists-refused-entry-to-azerbaijan-energy-conference-ahead-of-cop29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65253","title":{"rendered":"Journalists refused entry to Azerbaijan energy conference ahead of Cop29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incident reignites concerns over crackdown on media before crucial UN climate talks in Baku later this year<\/p>\n<p>Western journalists were refused entry to an energy industry conference in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/azerbaijan\">Azerbaijan<\/a> earlier this month, reigniting concerns over the state\u2019s crackdown on the media ahead of crucial UN climate talks in Baku later this year.<\/p>\n<p>At least three journalists from the UK and France have told the Guardian that they felt \u201cunsafe\u201d after they were denied entry to the Baku Energy Week forum, despite registering with the event organisers weeks in advance.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/28\/journalists-refused-entry-to-azerbaijan-energy-conference-ahead-of-cop29\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incident reignites concerns over crackdown on media before crucial UN climate talks in Baku later this yearWestern journalists were refused entry to an energy industry conference in Azerbaijan earlier this month, reigniting concerns over the state\u2019s cr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4321,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1551,6,2331,493,657,65,221,492,238,672,54,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-azerbaijan","category-business","category-climate-crisis","category-energy","category-energy-industry","category-environment","category-europe","category-fossil-fuels","category-media","category-newspapers-magazines","category-press-freedom","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65254,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65253\/revisions\/65254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}