Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani journalist held in custody in Kyiv
A Ukrainian court has ruled to hold Azerbaijani journalist Fikrat Huseynli in custody for an additional 18 days, while they consider an Azerbaijani extradition request. Kyiv’s Boryspil City Court made the ruling on 17 October, three days after the journalist was detained at Kyiv’s Boryspil Airport. Huseynli fled Azerbaijan in 2008 and received political asylum in the Netherland, he now has Dutch citizenship. He was detained on 14 October accused by the authorities in Baku of fraud and
