|Baku viciously cracked down on domestic dissent as it hosted two major international events, the Eurovision 2012 song contest and the Internet Governance Forum. Authorities imprisoned at least nine critical journalists on a variety of retaliatory charges, including hooliganism, drug possession, and extortion, reads annual report of CPJ  called “Attacks of press in 2012”. CPJ concluded that the charges were fabricated. International human rights...

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