Azerbaijan journalist beaten by football fans after Facebook post

An Azerbaijan journalist died after being beaten by presumed soccer fans after he criticized a soccer player for alleged insults made during and after a heated soccer match. Rasim Aliyev, 30, died Sunday in a hospital in Baku after being beaten by a group of men who reached out to him via Facebook after an aggressive soccer match on Aug. 6 between Cyprus and Azerbaijan. Javid Huseynov, a player on the team from Azerbaijan, had waved a Turkish flag after...
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