Azerbaijan - Prosecution requests nine-year jail term for Khadija Ismayilova

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the monstrous sentence sought by the prosecution in journalist Khadija Ismayilova preposterous trial's in Azerbaijan, a nation that suffered one of the biggest falls of any country in RSF's 2015 press freedom. The judicial sham will soon be over. After a series of hearings in which the defendant's rights were systematically flouted, a Baku prosecutor today requested a nine year sentence for Ismayilova. “This is so obviously an absurd and outrageous (...)

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