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“You [Azerbaijan] are doing everything to convince me that this is a politically engaged process. You do not let a person justify himself. You do not let him prepare for the process. The process will be public, but you do not do it. So what are you hiding? Why are you doing this? If everything is fine, everything is proven, you have great researchers and a great prosecutor, why is the trial being conducted in a language that the defendant does not understand?

And I am not even talking about the presumption of innocence. Or the fact that I know Ruben and he is not a terrorist. But let’s say you think so, prove it to me! But you do everything to say: “We will not let him justify himself”.

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Alexei Venediktov, historian, teacher, journalist, editor, public figure