On 14 August 2013, the Astara Regional Court found Mikayil Talibov guilty of slander under article 147.1 of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan, sentencing him to one year of “corrective labour” under which 20 per cent of his monthly income would be deducted into the state budget for a period of one year. The charges were brought in connection with Mikayil Talibov’s comments on a Facebook page he had created on 26 March 2013 which uses, in its title,...

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