A key U.S. senator on Wednesday urged Azerbaijan to release veteran human rights advocate, Rufat Safarov, 'immediately,' TURAN's Washington correspondent reports. "Rufat Safarov was set to meet with me and other Senators next week to receive the State Department's Human Rights Defender Award, but the Azeri regime jailed him on bogus charges," Ben Cardin (D-Md.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said....

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