By Ana Baric

Government buildings have been lit on fire, protestors wielding stones have been met with rubber bullets and tear gas from the police, and city center streets swarm with hives of protestors gathered to show solidarity against the government corruption and economic stagnation that has been eroding the country for two decades now. 

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Winners of the fifth Global Shining Light Award, including Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project regional coordinator , have donated their US $1,000 prize money to imprisoned Azerbaijani editor Avaz Zeynalli.

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