The message to Mehman Huseynov couldn’t have been clearer. The 26-year-old blogger – well known among Azerbaijan’s political opposition - was nabbed from his home on September 10 and taken to a police station, interrogated and threatened with torture. Before he was released the police chief took him aside with a parting request: “Go and write what happened.” When authoritarian governments want to silence criticism, they can do so quietly...

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