An Azerbaijani dissident married to a U.S. servicewoman has spent the last half-year living in the Swiss embassy in Baku, denied protection by the American embassy there. The 35-year-old human rights defender Emin Huseynov has long been persecuted by the authoritarian government of Ilham Aliyev and since August 2014 has been hosted by the Swiss embassy for humanitarian reasons after he went into hiding last summer, fearing his arrest was imminent.
The Swiss television show “Rundschau” broke the news today, and the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed Huseynov’s residence in its embassy. The story of how he got there six-and-a-half …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
