The editor-in-chief of an opposition magazine in the authoritarian former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan was murdered as he returned home Wednesday evening, police said. Monitor magazine founder and editor Elmar Huseinov, 39, was shot seven times, two times in the head, outside his Baku home. Huseinov reported critically on the politics and economics of the Caspian Sea nation, controlled by President Ilham Aliyev, who succeeded his late father in 2003. He has repeatedly been facing lawsuits, at least 26, filed by officials for the articles published in the magazine and has been arrested for his work. Another coworker of Monitor was recently attacked by unknown assailants, said colleagues.
