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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

13:26 20.12.2014

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) special report

Accordingt to CPJ's 2014 report, there are in total 220 journalists jailed around the world. The countries in favor of jailing their critics the most are China (44 journalists) and Iran (30 journalists), who are holding a third of journalists jailed globally says the report.

Azerbaijan and Turkey made the cut for the 10 worst jailers of journalists list.

"In Azerbaijan, authorities were jailing nine journalists, up one from the previous year. Amid a crackdown on traditional media, some activists took to social networking sites in an attempt to give the public an alternative to state media. CPJ's list does not include at least four activists imprisoned in Azerbaijan this year for creating and managing Facebook groups on which they and others posted a mix of commentary and news articles about human rights abuses and allegations of widespread corruption."

11:55 22.12.2014

December 21, Washington Post featured a letter from an Azerbaijani Embassy staff - Mammad Talibov.

Talibov wrote "I am disappointed that the coverage of my country reflects neither its widely acknowledged successes nor the robust U.S.- Azerbaijan partnership [...] The case of investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova is going through Azerbaijan's legal system. As recent events in the United States have shown, legal decisions are not always popular and, in some cases spart mass protests".

15:30 22.12.2014

Filmmaker makes plea for Khadija Ismayilova's release

Liz Mermin, a friend of Khadija and documentary filmmaker visited Baku in 2012 to investigate the human rights abuse and political corruption. Mermin's trip took place just before the Eurovision Song Contest at the height of evictions and house demolitions.

Mermin's findings were made into a film: "Amazing Azerbaijan".

00:50 23.12.2014

RTVi, Russian language TV report on Khadija Ismayilova's arrest

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