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Yet another Azerbaijani activist deported from Germany has been handed a prison sentence after spending a year in pre-trial detention. Jafar Mirzayev, a member of the opposition Popular Front Party who was deported from Germany to Azerbaijan in November 2021 and arrested a year ago, was sentenced to six years in prison on drug charges on January 16 by the Baku Grave Crimes Court. In his final words at the trial, Mirzayev denied the drug charges and claimed they were invented because he attended rallies against the Azerbaijani government in Germany. “At the police station, they took a ‘statemen…