While this week’s release of Azadliq newspaper executive director Faig Amirli, Turan information agency director Mehman Aliyev and blogger Alexander Lapshin from their places of detention should be taken as a step in the right direction, it is only the...

Baku Court of Appeal, chaired by Judge Vagif Mursagulov, considered Azadliq newspaper distribution director Faig Amirli's appeal. Lawyers Agil Layijov and Fakhraddin Mammadov solicited for Amirli's acquittal. The public prosecutor requested that Sabail district court's original decision be upheld. Upon...