A leading Azerbaijani opposition figure, Tofig Yagublu, faces up to 13 years in prison on a variety of fraud charges, prosecutors stated at the start of his trial in Baku. He insists the charges against him are politically motivated. Yagublu was among more than a dozen prominent journalists and government critics detained amid a crackdown late last year as the country prepared to hold a snap presidential election. Opponents of President Ilham Aliyev’s administration contend the wave of arrests was designed to muzzle criticism of his regime during his re-election campaign. No cameras are being …