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Court Verdict Executors Beat Reporter

Suhayla Gamberova, a reporter for the newspaper Impuls, is revoering in Musa Nagiyeva Hospital's Neurology-Traumatoloty Department after sustaining beatings fro mcourt verdict executors, reported the Institute for Reporter Freedom and Safety. Gamberova was covering a story about court verdict executors evicting people from their homes without a court decision in hand. She, along with evicted residetns, was beaten when she asked the executors for the court decision. Gamberova's sister, Bahar, who was also there said that her sister was forced into an apartment, pushed to the floor, kicked in the head and the rest of her body. Suhayla Gamberova filed an appeal to the Nasimi District Police Department about the incident.

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