"We are disturbed by reports that a local court in Azerbaijan has sentenced Jehovah's Witness Seymur Mammadov to nine months in prison for his conscientious objection to mandatory military service," the U.S. religious freedom body USCIRF's Vice Chair Abraham Cooper said in a tweet on Tuesday.Mammadov, 22, is reportedly imprisoned for refusing to serve in the military on religious grounds. On September 22, the Goranboy District Court sentenced him...

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