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Star lawyer Amal Clooney to defend Azerbaijani investigative journalist Ismayilova
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Star lawyer Amal Clooney to defend Azerbaijani investigative journalist Ismayilova

By Gulnar Salimova.
Azerbaijani investigative journalist, Khadija Ismayilova, a member of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, was arrested on charges of incitement to suicide, a charge widely criticized by human rights organizations as bogus.
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Clooney, the wife of Hollywood actor George Clooney, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” program on Jan. 19 that she would be defending the Azerbaijani journalist, although Ismayilova’s lawyers say they have not yet confirmed an agreement with Clooney.

Clooney has in the past taken on several prominent human rights cases in Egypt, Armenia, and the Maldives, defending people imprisoned on charges often seen by human rights groups as politically motivated, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported.

Ismayilova, who works for Radio Free Europe, was sentenced in September 2015 to seven-and-a-half years in prison on charges of embezzlement and tax evasion. The charges were widely viewed as being trumped up in retaliation for her reports linking family members of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to a lucrative construction project.

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