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21:07, May 8, 2015

As the glittering PEN awards ceremony came to a close on Tuesday, a set of cartoons flashed onto the screen.

At the end of the night, postcards were handed out to members of the audience bearing the same cartoons.

The pictures all told aspects of the story of a journalist from Azerbaijan. Khadija Ismayilova had just been presented with PEN’s Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write award – in absentia, since she was unable to attend the ceremony herself.

A determined investigative reporter who worked to uncover corruption in the face of a vicious government crackdown on civil society, Ismayilova was jailed in December in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.  Read more... (1015 words)

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