Authorities in Azerbaijan should drop new, politically motivated charges against Hilal Mamedov, chief editor of a paper serving ethnic Talysh, and release him immediately, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.    Mamedov, who edits the independent newspaper Talyshi Sado, was charged in a Baku court on Wednesday with separate counts of treason, incitement to ethnic and religious hatred, and drug possession, news reports said. If convic...

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