Leyla Yunus is free. I’ve been waiting for 17 months to wake up to that news. I cannot imagine the joy and relief she and her family – her husband, Arif, also unjustly prisoned, was released last month – must be feeling now.But Yunus should never have been behind bars in the first place. She has been one of the true, towering figures of Azerbaijan’s human rights movement since the end of the Soviet era.Azerbaijani authorities arrested her in July...

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