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UK: Gay Azerbaijani Artist Faces Deportation

Thursday, September 18th, 2008 @ 21:40 UTC

by Onnik Krikorian

Countries:: Azerbaijan, United Kingdom
Topics:: Arts & Culture, Human Rights, LGBT
Languages:: English

Unzipped: Gay Armenia reports that gay Azerbaijani artist Babi Badalov faces deportation from the U.K. this weekend. The blog has chronicled concerns about the persecution of people such as Badalov in the South Caucasus and urges its readers to protest against the decision.

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kitup

Let Babi stay in UK!
Support from Berlin
kitup

# 2008-09-19 at 10:55 am

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# 2008-09-19 at 12:18 pm

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