"Prominent Azerbaijani journalist sent to two-month pretrial detention", 5 December 2014

…A court in Baku has ordered that an investigative journalist with RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service, Khadija Ismayilova, be held in pretrial detention for two months. Ismayilova was summoned to appear in the Sabail District court in Baku court on December 5 over a case in which a man accused her of pressing him to commit suicide. Nenad Pejic, the editor in chief of RFE/RL, condemned Ismayilova's treatment. "The arrest and detention of Khadija Ismayilova is the latest attempt in a two-year campaign to silence a journalist who has investigated government corruption and human rights abuses in Azerbaijan," Pejic said. "The charges brought against her today are outrageous. Khadija is being punished for her journalism."…She is known for her extensive reporting on the business interests of President Ilham Aliyev's family.