Time to get tough on Azerbaijan

Almost all the news coming out of Azerbaijan these days is bad. On August 9, an independent Azerbaijani journalist, Rasim Aliyev, was beaten and killed. A few days later, civil society activists Leyla and Arif Yunus were sentenced to lengthy prison terms on politically-motivated charges. And on September 1, a court sentenced award-winning journalist, Khadija Ismaylova, to seven and a half years in jail on absurd charges of tax evasion, illegal business activity, and abuse of power.

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