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Azerbaijan Frees Rights Activist From Prison

Azerbaijan on Wednesday released Leyla Yunus, a leading rights activist in the former Soviet republic, whose imprisonment was decried by critics as politically motivated. Yunus, the head of the Baku-based Institute for Peace and Democracy, had been held in detention since July 2014. She was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in jail in August this year. Her husband Arif Yunus, who was sentenced to seven years, was released from prison on November 12. They were convicted of treason,...

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