Azerbaijani Journalist Jailed Over ‘Spying for Armenia’

Azerbaijani journalist Rauf Mirkadyrov (Source: Massis Post)

BAKU (Tert.am)”” A court in Azerbaijan on December 28 sentenced a prominent journalist to six years in jail for spying for Armenia, in a case slammed by rights groups as politically motivated.

The court for serious crimes in the capital Baku “found Rauf Mirkadyrov guilty of high treason, namely of spying for Armenia, and sentenced him to six years in prison,”