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– 10-year sentence for political graffiti in Azerbaijan (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News December 15, 2016

Mammadov and Ibrahimov made a false confession to made-up drug charges after police beat them, forced them to remove their pants, and threatened to rape them with truncheons and bottles.
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