Campaigner still facing treason charges after being freed from jail because of deteriorating health. RFE/RL reportsProminent Azerbaijani human rights activist Leyla Yunus has been released from prison on humanitarian grounds,but is still facing treason charges alongside her husband, Arif. .
An appeals court in Baku converted Yunus’s eight-and-a-half year jail sentence into a suspended term because of her deteriorating health, and placed her on probation for the next five years. Her conviction on charges including tax evasion and fraud,widely denounced as politically motivated, remains in state. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com