On Tuesday 7 March, the European External Action Service (EEAS) criticised the two-year prison sentence handed down on 3 March by a court in Baku to Azerbaijani blogger Mehman Huseynov on a charge of slander.
The sentence given to Huseynov, after he reported that he was "tortured during a brief incarceration in January", "raises serious questions both as regards respect for freedom of expression and due process of law", the EEAS stated in a press release. Saying that Huseynov was known in...