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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev doesn’t want anything to draw attention away from the annual UN climate summit, COP29, which will take place in Baku in November. Accordingly, he’s pushed up parliamentary elections to September, so they won’t coincide with COP29. But there’s another potential distraction that Baku hasn’t yet fully addressed – the trials of prominent Karabakh leaders in Azerbaijani custody. When Azerbaijani forces completed their reconquista of Karabakh in September of last year, they took into custody a bevy of Armenians who held leadership roles in the de facto republic dur…

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