BAKU (Reuters) - Amnesty International said on Monday it considered Rasul Jafarov, a prominent human rights activist in Azerbaijan, who had been arrested last week, a prisoner of conscience.
Rasul Jafarov, a founder of the Baku-based Human Rights Club (HRC) in Azerbaijan, was arrested on Saturday and sentenced to three months pre-trial detention on charges of tax evasion, illegal business and abuse of authority in a case critics say highlights a government crackdown on dissent in the former Soviet republic.
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