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Rights champion dies

25 February 2009 03:45 (UTC+04:00)
The director of the Human Rights Institute of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Professor Rovshan Mustafayev, has died at the age of 49 after a long illness.
Mustafayev died in a Turkish hospital on Friday morning, a source from the institute said.
He had gone to Turkey to receive treatment on December 26, 2008.
Mustafayev was the first doctor of political sciences in Azerbaijan.

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