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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11303

28 April 2015
EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) azerbaijan
EU criticises sentencing of lawyer

Brussels, 27/04/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Friday 24 April, the European Union criticised the sentencing of “prominent” human rights lawyer Intigam Aliyev by an Azerbaijani Court to seven and a half years imprisonment and a further three-year ban on holding public office for alleged offences of illegal entrepreneurship, tax evasion and abuse of power.

“This harsh sentence is disproportionate to the alleged offences” and it “is a further demonstration of the increasingly difficult...

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