Azerbaijan jails youth opposition activist for 10 years

‘An Azerbaijani court has sentenced a youth activist to 10 years in prison as the government has come under fire over its pervasive crackdown on dissent in the Caucasus country.
On Tuesday, a court in the Azeri capital city of Baku found 21-year-old Giyas Ibrahimov guilty of drug trafficking.
Ibrahimov is a member of NIDA Civic Movement, a youth opposition movement that is highly critical of the Azeri government.
Elchin Sadykhov, a lawyer representing Ibrahimov, said rights advocates dismissed the charges brought against his client as politically motivated.’
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