{"id":182362,"date":"2017-02-06T23:06:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T23:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/article\/attempt-to-prevent-journalist-khadija-ismayilovas-address-to-european-parliament-thwarted\/"},"modified":"2021-10-29T13:48:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T09:48:16","slug":"attempt-to-prevent-journalist-khadija-ismayilovas-address-to-european-parliament-thwarted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/attempt-to-prevent-journalist-khadija-ismayilovas-address-to-european-parliament-thwarted\/","title":{"rendered":"Attempt to Prevent Journalist Khadija Ismayilova&#8217;s Address to European Parliament Thwarted"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/az\/khadija-ismayilova-spoke-today-at-a-european-parliament-panel-on-human-rights-abuses-in-azerbaijan\/\" alt=\"Khadija Ismayilova spoke today at a European Parliament panel on human rights abuses in Azerbaijan\" class=\"wp-image-78813\"\/><figcaption>\n    Khadija Ismayilova spoke today at a European Parliament panel on human rights abuses in Azerbaijan<br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\n  Investigative journalist Khadjia Ismayilova lost power to her home shortly before the start of a European Parliament panel discussion on human rights in Brussels today which she was due to address via Skype.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ismayilova lost power towards 4 p.m. Baku time, while the panel was due to start half an hour later, she reported on Facebook.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cFirst, they cut off my internet at home. Then they cut off the power. Then both Azercell and Bakcell internet stopped providing mobile internet. There was a car with a radar dish not far from my house outside\u2026\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Fortunately, a friend was able to provide her with access to the internet at a different location in time for her address.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ismayilova was recently released from prison on May 26, 2016 after a Baku court decided to commute a 7.5 year sentence handed down in September of 2015.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ismayilova\u2019s arrest was condemned by OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic and numerous international organizations, claiming that the charges against her were political in nature.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She was unable to leave the country for the event because of a current travel ban on her passport, against which her multiple appeals have been dismissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigative journalist Khadjia Ismayilova lost power to her home shortly before the start of a European Parliament panel discussion on human rights in Brussels today which she was due to address via Skype.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":78813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","infinite-scroll-item","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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