Jailed investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova was standing inside a soundproof isolation booth at Baku's Court of Appeals when she managed to issue her latest report on rights abuses in ...

RFE/RL journalist Khadija Ismayilova has walked free from an Azerbaijani prison and vowed to keep on working after the Supreme Court reduced her 7 1/2-year prison sentence to a suspended term of 3 1/2 ...

Lawyer Amal Clooney speaks during a news conference for Mohamed Nasheed, in central London, Britain October 5, 2015. Lawyers working to release the jailed former President of the Maldives Nasheed are ...

Harassment, public humiliation, and 7 years of prison: The price Khadija Ismayilova paid for exposing her government's most peculiar business practices. In March 2011, Khadija Ismayilova published a ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Even after Khadija Ismayilova had spent several months in prison—an event human rights organizations call “retribution ...

Khadija Ismayilova was no stranger to being a target. In years past, the award-winning investigative journalist — who reports on government corruption in Azerbaijan, an oil-and-gas-rich former ...

Ismayilova is one of the only investigative reporters in the oil-rich former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan. For years she’s reported on corruption within the country’s autocratic ruling family, but ...