Khadija Ismayilova

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Azerbaijan

ECHR rules in favour of journalist Khadija Ismayilova over sex-tape articles

by OC Media

•3 min read

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has made a third ruling in favour of investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova, ordering the Azerbaijani Government to pay her €6,000 ($6,500) in compensation and legal costs. The court ruled on Thursday that the government failed to protect her right to respect for her private life and her reputation. Ismayilova had complained that domestic courts dismissed her complaints against newspapers that publicised the leak of a secretly recorded sex-tape of

Azerbaijan

ECHR rules detention of Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova was unlawful

by OC Media

•3 min read

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that the prison sentence of prominent Azerbaijani investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova in 2015 was unlawful, and has ordered Azerbaijan to pay her €25,000 ($28,000) in compensation. Ismayilova, who worked for RFE/RL’s Azerbaijani service, Radio Azadliq, was arrested in December 2014 and sentenced in September 2015 to 7.5 years on charges including tax evasion and ‘abuse of authority’. Ismayilova published several investigations

Azerbaijan

Police in Azerbaijan break up women’s day march

by Sabina Abubakirova

•5 min read

Police in Baku dispersed a march for equality and against violence against women on 8 March, International Women’s Day. Over 50 women and men who had gathered in front of the city’s Statue of a Liberated Woman were immediately confronted by police. During the first few minutes of the action, officers confiscated all the participants’ posters, while several of them continued to shout ‘No to violence against women’. The participants were then attacked by a group of 10 middle-aged women, who

Amnesty International

Mass hunger strikes in Azerbaijan against ‘political prosecutions’

by Gulnur Kazimova

•7 min read

At least 20 people both in prison and on the outside are now on hunger strike in Azerbaijan in protest against political prosecutions in the country, local activists say. Nine people being held in Azerbaijani prisons joined announced they had joined the strike on 14 January, informing their families in a joint letter sent from prison. They have been joined outside prison by opposition politicians, activists, and journalists, including investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova. The hun

Afgan Mukhtarli

A government’s fear or bargaining chips — Political prisoners in Azerbaijan

by Gulnur Kazimova

•5 min read

The number of political prisoners in Azerbaijan is among the highest in Europe. This repression serves not only as a tactic of intimidating journalists, activists, and the opposition, but also an instrument of foreign policy. Investigative journalist Leyla Mustafayeva is married to political prisoner Afgan Mukhtarli. Their three-year-old daughter Nuray is unaware of her father’s imprisonment; she believes what her mother told her, that her father is simply a long way away. She and her mo

Azerbaijan

Khadija Ismayilova: Fear reigns in Azerbaijan

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•4 min read

Khadija Ismayilova is not only Azerbaijan’s most famous journalist, but the country’s most famous woman. Her loud and persistent investigations of corrupt dealings in the country, and her publications, in which she names president Ilham Aliyev, members of his family, and other high-ranking officials in connection to those dealings, have not endeared her to the authorities. An entire campaign was waged to discredit Ismayilova with the goal of, she supposes, forcing her to quit her investi