Baku, Azerbaijan  - Rights activists in Azerbaijan are accusing the government of manufacturing false charges to arrest critics who have been retur
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Rights activists in Azerbaijan are accusing the government of manufacturing false charges to arrest critics who have been returned to the country after failing to gain asylum in Germany. Samir Ashurov was detained on April 19 on charges of assault with a knife, just weeks after he was deported from Germany back to his native…
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Rights activists in Azerbaijan say the government's recent sentencing to prison of an opposition party leader on charges of slander is another sign of how defamation laws are being used against political opponents and civil society activists in the country. Last month the Baku Appellate Court upheld the five-month prison sentence given to Ali Aliyev,…