Int’l human rights NGOs demand Azerbaijani authorities remove investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova from no-fly list

The Azerbaijani authorities should lift the travel ban on well-known investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova, international NGOs Censorship Index, Reporters Without Borders and Transparency International demanded on January 15.

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Ismayilova was detained in December 2014 and sentenced in September 2015 to seven and a half years in prison on trumped-up charges. She was conditionally released in May 2016, but after three and a half years she still cannot leave the country.