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    SECOND LAWYER BARRED FROM DEFENDING JAILED AZERBAIJANI RIGHTS ACTIVIST

    11:19 * 07.11.14

    Asecond lawyer has been barred from defending jailed Azerbaijani
    human rights activist Leyla Yunus.

    Xalid Bagirov told RFE/RL that he was not allowed to meet with his
    client in a pretrial detention center in Baku on November 5.

    He said he was told he had been barred from defending Yunus by
    Azerbaijan's the prosecutor-general, but no reason was given.

    Last week, Yunus said that another lawyer, Cavad Cavadov, had been
    barred from representing her in court.

    Yunus, 58, is a fierce critic of Azerbaijan's poor rights record.

    She and her husband, Arif Yunus, 59, were arrested in July and August,
    respectively, and charged with high treason and other crimes.

    The couple says the charges are politically motivated.

    Western governments and human rights groups have called for the
    couple's immediate release.

    http://www.tert.am/en/news/2014/11/07/yunus-lawyer/

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