By empty (2/10/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
More than 100 journalists and activists on Tuesday ended a seven-day hunger strike that had been undertaken to protest what they say is government pressure on the news media. Rauf Arifoglu, editor of the country\'s most prominent opposition newspaper Yeni Musavat, launched the hunger strike last Wednesday, demanding an end to lawsuits against his paper that he says have been organized by the government. By the time the organizers called off the strike, 102 people had joined the action, said Arif Aliev, head of the Baku press club.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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