BAKU (Reuters) - Azerbaijan on Tuesday extended the pre-trial detention of a journalist critical of President Ilham Aliyev, prompting concern from Europe's democracy watchdog OSCE about "rapidly deteriorating" media freedoms in the ex-Soviet state.
Rights advocates and critics accuse Aliyev of muzzling dissent and jailing opponents, citing the case of journalist Khadija Ismailova of Radio Azadliq (Liberty) as an example.
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