Azeri journalist dies

An Azeri journalist died on Sunday after being severely beaten by unidentified attackers following a dispute over his Facebook post about a football match, his sister told the Turan news agency. Rasim Aliyev, a 30-year-old photo and video journalist for a number of online publications, died in hospital after being beaten by a group of men who contacted him over his Facebook post about a heated football match between teams from Cyprus and Azerbaijan. Aliyev had criticised the behaviour of the Azeri team Gabala’s striker Javid Huseynov who waved a Turkish flag after an August 6 match with Cypriot team Apollon Limassol and allegedly made an offensive gesture at a journalist. Aliyev wrote that Huseynov “did not know how to behave” and should not play in matches in Europe.