Early Tuesday morning Azerbaijani authorities detained Sevinj Vaqifqizi, the editor-in-chief of Abzas Media, at Baku airport as she was returning to the country. The previous day, Abzas director Ulvi Hasanli had been detained on the same charge of smuggling foreign currency.
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