The Azerbaijani government sustained a broad crackdown on government critics during 2016, locking up dozens of people and enforcing laws that paralyze independent groups, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2017.   In the past year, authorities freed 17 human rights defenders, journalists, and political activists imprisoned on politically motivated charges. But at least 24 government critics remained wrongfully imprisoned...

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