It was well after midnight in Baku, on 5 August last year, when I spoke by Skype to my old friend Arif Yunus, the distinguished Azerbaijani scholar. Arif was under great stress. He wanted to discuss how to get urgent medical treatment for his wife Leyla, the well-known human rights defender, who had been arrested the week before. Arif had been travelling to the notorious Kurdakhany prison outside the city but now he was unable to deliver packages...

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