Azerbaijan

A court has sentenced a journalist from an independent newspaper in Azerbaijan to three years of jail, while the paper's editor-in-chief may potentially face 12 years imprisonment on alleged bribery and extortion charges, according to recent media reports. The journalist was initially jailed in August on a charge of hooliganism shortly after publishing a report critical of Muslim leaders in the Caucasus loyal to the authorities. The newspaper has not been publishing since raids on its offices in October. The ruling has provoked a strong response from international human rights groups, such as Amnesty International. We believe that Azerbaijan's strategic

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