23:11, May 18, 2015
WASHINGTON, May 18, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The National Press Club announced that it will honor an Azerbaijani reporter, Khadija Ismayilova, with one of its 2015 press freedom awards.
Ismayilova, who has reported for Radio Free Liberty/Radio Free Europe and other news organizations, has been jailed sinceDecember 2014 on a variety of charges that independent observers such as the Committee to Protect Journalists have called bogus. Ismayilova is well known for hard-hitting reporting, including on the financial dealings of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and alleged corruption in his government.
She is one of nine reporters known to be jailed in Azerbaijan on similarly trumped up charges, in addition to a greater number of political prisoners who are not journalists, according to human rights groups.
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