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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11380
EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) azerbaijan

Europeans criticise sentencing of journalist

Brussels, 02/09/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 1 September, the European Union criticised the seven and a half year prison sentence of the Azeri journalist, Khadija Ismayilova, for incitement to suicide.

In a joint press release, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini and European Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn said they thought that the punishment for this “prominent journalist” was...

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