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Two brothers in Azerbaijan pay the price for speaking out

Mehman Huseynov, pictured before his January 2017 trial, is fighting for press freedom in Azerbaijan

NEITHER OF THE HUSEYNOV BROTHERS got to see their mother before she died last year. Journalist Emin Huseynov had been stripped of Azeri citizenship and rendered stateless after he escaped the oil-rich Central Asian country for Switzerland in 2015. His younger brother Mehman, also a reporter,

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