DUSHANBE (Reuters) - A Tajik lawyer who represented members of a banned Islamist party went on trial on Tuesday in a case criticised by human rights groups as part of the government's crackdown on dissent and basic freedoms.
Human rights lawyer Buzurgmehr Yorov was detained last October, after a court banned the opposition Islamic Renaissance Party whose members he had represented, and has since been charged with fraud and extremism.
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