Azerbaijan - Another outspoken blogger gets a long jail sentence in Azerbaijan

Reporters without borders

Convicted on a trumped-up drugs charge at the end of a political trial Reporters Without Borders condemns the five-year jail sentence that Omar Mamedov, a 19-year-old blogger and opposition activist, has received from a Baku court on a trumped-up drugs charge. He was the victim of a politically-manipulated trial designed to silence a government critic. Bloggers continue to be jailed in Azerbaijan despite President Ilham Aliyev's claim to the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly on 25 (...)

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