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A Baku court handed down prison sentences to 29 members of a group for plotting terrorist attacks on President Aliyev, police, hotels, and government buildings during the Eurovision song contest in Baku in 2012. The group's leader, Vugar Padarov, was killed before the attacks could occur; members of the group were said to have trained in Iran, Syria, and Pakistan, and to have fought against NATO in Afghanistan.