US welcomes decision to allow activist to leave Azerbaijan

Describing Huseynov as "a courageous proponent of media freedom," State Department spokesman John Kirby urged the Azerbaijani government on June 13 to "extend this same good will to others considered to have been incarcerated for their civic activism."

Switzerland said the 35-year-old journalist and human rights activist left his country onboard the plane of a top Swiss diplomat who was in Baku to attend the opening of the European Games on June 12.

 

(RFE/RL)