Human rights defender Leyla Yunus and her husband, Arif, pose after she was awarded the Knight of the French Order of the Legion of Honor in 2013 at the French Embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan. (Aziz ...

The grooming began when she was just 14. Just over a year later, child psychiatrist Amirul Arif Bin Mohd Yunos was raping her, using a blindfold as well as suffocating and choking her to muffle ...

Prison took a heavy toll on Leyla and Arif Yunus, Azerbaijan’s prominent husband-and-wife team of human rights defenders. Almost one year after their release from jail, where they suffered what ...

It's been nearly a month since Azerbaijani rights activist Leyla Yunus and her husband, historian Arif Yunus, were jailed on charges of fraud and antistate activity. The couple's only child ...

60 NGOs from 13 Human Rights Houses call upon the Azerbaijani authorities, in their joint letter to President Ilham Aliyev, to immediately and unconditionally release Leyla Yunus, Arif Yunus and Rasul ...

TEAM skipper Amirul Arif Mahadhir kept his promise as he struck a brace to help the national five-a-side football (visually impaired) team to a 3-0 win over Vietnam.

NOTHING BUT relief can greet the news that Azerbaijan has released from prison the ailing scholar Arif Yunus, who should never have been detained in the first place. Nothing but fury can be ...

PETALING JAYA: A Malaysian has been sentenced to jail by the Irish courts after he was found guilty for sexually assaulting a teenager there. According to the Irish Times, Amirul Arif Mohd Yunos ...

A court in Baku will hear the appeal against the convictions of the prominent rights defenders Leyla and Arif Yunus on October 12, 2015. The flawed convictions, reached after a trial that flouted ...

Amirul Arif Yunos pleaded guilty to eight counts of sexual crimes against his then 15-year-old patient.