No one who witnessed persecution of Leyla and Arif Yunus could doubt that this was a vicious campaign against independent opponents, says Tanya Lokshina The court of grave crimes in Baku found leading Azeri activists, 59-year-old Leyla Yunus and her 60-year-old husband, Arif, guilty of swindling and tax evasion yesterday, and sentenced them to eight and seven-and-a-half years in prison respectively. I was in that courtroom as the verdict was read, and when the judge announced the sentence my fir...
Azerbaijan makes a mockery of justice as couple sentenced in political show trial
The Guardian - 14 Aug 2015 08:00
No one who witnessed persecution of Leyla and Arif Yunus could doubt that this was a vicious campaign against independent opponents, says Tanya Lokshina The court of grave crimes in Baku found leading Azeri activists, 59-year-old Leyla Yunus and her 60-year-old husband, Arif, guilty of swindling and tax evasion yesterday, and sentenced them to eight and seven-and-a-half years in prison respectively. I was in that courtroom as the verdict was read, and when the judge announced the sentence my fir...
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