Baku, April 2, 2026 (AFP) - Azerbaijan upholds 9-year jail term for leading opposition figure

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2026-04-02

Azerbaijan's Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a nine-year prison sentence slapped on leading opposition figure Tofig Yagublu for fraud and forgery that he and rights groups say is politically motivated. Yagublu, the deputy chairman of the anti-government Musavat party, was sentenced in March last year and had appealed. "The Supreme Court did not satisfy Tofig Yagublu's cassation appeal. I consider the verdict illegal," his lawyer Nemat Kerimli to......

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