Two leaders of the Azerbaijani branch of Hezbollah were sentenced to life in prison for their involvement in the recent assassination of a leading Azerbaijani intellectual, according to the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews. Five other members of the group accused of being involved in the death of Ziya Bunyatov, who the group believed had connections with “Zionist circles and Israeli intelligence,” were given lesser sentences.
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