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LGBT people are being detained and beaten in Azerbaijan (Dazed)

By Index on Censorship

Sep 28, 2017

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Last week, Azerbaijani queer rights activist Javid Nabiyev posted a video on Facebook, in which he revealed that a series of police raids disproportionately aimed at LGBTQ+ people had been carried out in Baku, the country’s capital, over a series of days. Read the full article

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