Azerbaijan frees rights campaigner's husband from prison

Azerbaijan on Thursday released Arif Yunus, husband of leading human rights activist Leyla Yunus, from prison on health grounds, and his lawyers said they would press ahead now to try to secure the release of his wife. Arif, 60, was sentenced to seven years and Leyla Yunus, head of the Baku-based Institute for Peace and Democracy, to 8-1/2 years in jail in August after being convicted of economic crimes in a case that human rights groups say was part of a campaign to muzzle dissent. Critics of A