(Source: HRW - Human Rights Watch) (Geneva) – An imprisoned Azerbaijani journalist will be honored on November 19, 2015, with the prestigious Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch will honor Khadija Ismayilova in Geneva, as the government of Azerbaijan pushes ahead with a sweeping crackdown on its critics and as a key United Nations body reviews the country’s record on torture. Ismayilova is a prominent investigative journalist who has dedicated her life to fighting for human rights in the oil-rich former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, a country under increasingly harsh authoritarian rule. As Baku bureau chief for two years at...
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