Azerbaijan Court Rejects Appeal Of RFE/RL Journalist, Upholds Nine-Year Sentence

by Stefan J. Bos, Worthy News Europe Bureau ChiefBAKU/BUDAPEST (Worthy News) – Azerbaijan’s Supreme Court has upheld a nine-year prison sentence against Farid Mehralizade, a journalist with U.S.-backed Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), rejecting his appeal in a case condemned by critics as unjust and seen as a test of press freedom in the former Soviet republic.Mehralizade, a reporter and economist, has already spent nearly two years behind bars, while the ruling also confirmed con