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Update: Letter From Jailed RFE/RL Journalist Khadija Ismailova

Posted December 19th, 2014 at 11:45 am (UTC+0)
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  Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty this week published a letter from their Azeri language service colleague, Khadija Ismailova, reporter is being detained in the Azerbaijan capital of Baku, as detailed in an earlier RePRESSed post. With characteristic cheer, she writes: My dear friends! Here in pretrial detention, my thoughts are with you. My only regret […]

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In Azerbaijan, Khadija Ismayilova ‘Punished For Her Journalism’

Posted December 9th, 2014 at 10:10 am (UTC+0)
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  If you ask Azerbaijan prosecutors why they have jailed Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reporter Khadija Ismayilova, they will tell you it is because she drove a former boyfriend to suicide. “Ismayilova was arrested for insulting [Tural] Mustafayev’s honour and dignity in the social networks and among her friends due to breaking off their […]

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USA: Art Or Assault? Supreme Court Considers Free Speech In Social Media

Posted December 2nd, 2014 at 3:38 pm (UTC+0)
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This week, U.S. Supreme Court is considering the issue of free speech in the digital age, reviewing the case of a Pennsylvania man who was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for posting graphically violent rap lyrics on his Facebook  page. Court documents show that back in May 2010, life wasn’t going very well […]

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VOA reporter Cecily Hilleary monitors the state of free expression and free speech around the world.

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