Azerbaijan: Bloggers imprisoned after unfair trial

Index Number: EUR 55/010/2009
Date Published: 16 November 2009
Categories: Azerbaijan

Two male Azerbaijani youth activists and bloggers Emin Abdullayev (aged 30) and Adnan Hajizade (aged 26) have been sentenced to two and a half years and two years respectively in an unfair trial. Amnesty International believes the charges against them were fabricated and they have been imprisoned solely for exercising their right to freedom of expression.