STRASBOURG France (Reuters) - A pan-European rights watchdog awarded a prize on Monday to a democracy campaigner jailed in Azerbaijan, underlining its concern about human rights in the former Soviet republic.
Anar Mammadli, the head of the independent Baku-based Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Centre, was jailed in December on charges of tax evasion and illegal business activity after documenting widespread electoral violations.
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