Scientist and Hooligan

*Stuff like this happens every day. It's interesting that the local strongmen have thrown so much mud at this guy. If he was a 53-year-old biologist who really WAS a dope-smuggling, arms-smuggling hooligan who beat up strangers in the street at random, that would be super-interesting. Right now he's just another jailed martyr whose friends and relatives have been chased offshore.

http://www.rferl.org/content/Turkmen_Environmental_Activist_Given_FiveYear_Jail_Term/1864506.html

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