Yerevan /Mediamax/. The Washington Post published the open letter of journalist Khadija Ismayilova, who is serving a prison sentence in Azerbaijan.
“I am writing this letter from jail in Baku, Azerbaijan, where I’m serving a 7½ -year sentence for a crime I never committed.
My only “crime” was to investigate high-level corruption within the government and family of Azeri President Ilham Aliyev. Aliyev is in Washington this week to attend the Nuclear Security Summit.
To get an invitation to this event from President Obama, he had to pardon several political prisoners. Although they have been released from jail, they remain confined within the country, barred from leaving, and justice has not been restored.
Aliyev needed these prisoners so that in exchange for their release, he could shake hands with Obama or get a loan from the World Bank to finance his failing currency and crippled economy after the sudden fall of oil prices.
Aliyev is shamelessly trying to use political prisoners as bargaining chips to advance his foreign policy agenda,” writes Ismayilova.
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