Azerbaijan - Two months preventive detention ordered for Azerbaijani journalist

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders demands the immediate freeing of widely respected Khadija Ismayilova, accused of having driven a colleague to attempt suicide. The Sabail District Court of Baku issued the preventive sentence order on 5 December. Ismayilova, one of the “100 Heros of Information” honoured by Reporters Without orders during World Press Freedom Day on 3 May, is former director of Radio Azadlyg, the Azerbaijani service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and contributes to a number of (...)

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