Inside Europe 29 May 2025

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Released RFE journalist Alsu Kurmasheva on her colleague Farid Mehralizada, who is facing a 12 year prison sentence in Azerbaijan. We meet some of the young people on trial in Turkey following the recent crackdown on dissent,
and take a look at the Franco-US relationship in the run up to D-Day.
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