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Khadija Ismayilova's Sentence Suspended After Supreme Court Decision

Khadija Ismayilova was arrested December 5, based on article 125 of the Criminal Court (inciting to suicide).

On May 25, following Supreme Court Decision journalist Khadija Ismayilova's sentence was suspended. Acquitted of article 179 (appropriation) and 308 (abuse of power), Ismayilova is still facing charges of illegal entrepreneurship, and tax evasion.

On September 1, the Baku Court for Grave Crimes sentenced Khadija Ismayil to 7 years and 6 months in jail. She was acquitted for the "incitement to attempt suicide" charge and found guilty on charges of tax evasion, embezzlement and misappropriation, abuse of power, and illegal enterpreneurship.

On February 23, under the decision handed by the Binegedi District Court Judge Sedreddin Haciyev, investigative reporter Khadija Ismayilova was found guilty based on the article 147.2 of the Criminal Code (slander). She was fined in the amount of 2,500Manat.

On February 13, Azerbaijan's Prosecutor General Office issued a series of additional charges against an award- winning investigative reporter Ismayilova. She is facing up to 19 years if convicted for embezzlement, tax evasion, illegal business and abuse of power.

On January 27, Sabail District Court ruled to keep Khadija Ismayil in jail for another two months. On February 5, her two-months sentence was going to finalize.

Azerbaijani government claimed there were no political motives in Ismayilova's case.

Azadliq Radio believes Ismayilova's arrest is the result of her work, investigating illegal businesses of Azerbaijani government officials.

Ismayilova, journalist and host of daily show After Work was arrested December 5 by the order of the Sabail District Court of Baku on charges brought by the prosecutor office.

She was sentenced to two months of pre-trial detention based on Article 125 of the Criminal Code (inciting to suicide) on December 5.

Her apartment was searched on December 6.

This is live blog of RFE/RL Azerbaijani Service with the most recent updates on the case.

NOTE*: Timestamps are local time in Baku

19:41 31.8.2015

Lawyer Fariz Namazli explains why Khadija Ismayil's final word was cut off

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Fariz Namazli: Today was Khadija Ismayil's final statement. And she tried reading it. But as she was reading her statement she was interrupted several times by the court for moving away from the essence of charges while defending herself. But Khadija was actually talking about the charges and explaining the reasons of her arrest. She cited the many reasons for her arrest and said the main cause was her investigative work. Despite multiple interruptions she continued reading the statement until she was cut off. The court announced it's decision to go on break before the judge read the sentence. But after the break, court secretary said the sentence is postponed without giving any reasons.

AzadliqRadiosu: Do you think there will be a sentence tomorrow?

Yes it is possible but in any case we will be informed about the date

AzadliqRadiosu: Was Khadija allowed to finish her final word?

No, the court announced its decision to take a break and after they said there wont be a sentence.

She was about to finish it but they still didn't let her.

AzadliqRadiosu: Why you think they cut her off?

Because they said she was moving away from the charges. At least this is what the public prosecutor told the court and asked several times the court to warn Khadija for deviating from the topic.

***The court will read the sentence tomorrow September 1, 3pm local time

15:57 31.8.2015

Khalid Bagirov independet lawyer speaking about Khadija Ismayil trial in an interview with Azadliq Radiosu

"There is a new tendency with these courts [including the trials of Leyla and Arif Yunus] - its a sham. And very soon there wont be "courts" left at all".

"Final word is a very important part of the criminal investigation. It's defendant's right to explain yourself not only to the court but to the society as a whole [...] And within this framework, the defendant can talk about anything. So the prosecutor telling Khadija she was talking about things that were not related was simply outlandish [... ]And it was not a matter of time either."

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