Amanda Rivkin
Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Oil Pipeline

BOYUK OYRAD, NEFTCALA REGION, AZERBAIJAN. (Right-left) Emin Milli, an imprisoned blogger jailed for making a satirical video that indirectly questions the authorities in his country, with his wife, Leyla Karimli, at the gate of a cousin's home in Milli's father's ancestral village, Boyuk Oryad in the Neftcala Region of Azerbaijan on July 3, 2010. Milli was released from jail for one week to attend the funeral of his father and allow for the traditional one week of mourning that follows but was expected to return to jail on July 5; Milli was released early from jail four months later.
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