Russian court extends Azerbaijani diaspora leader’s prison term to 24 years

A court in Yekaterinburg has sentenced Shahin Shykhlinski, the head of the Azerbaijani diaspora in the Urals, to nine years in a maximum-security prison for using violence against a law enforcement officer. The Kirovsky district court issued the verdict on April 13, the Russian regional news outlet Kommersant-Ural reported.