Journalist Khadija Ismayilova freed from jail in Azerbaijan

Radio Free Europe journalist Khadija Ismayilova has been freed from jail in Azerbaijan on Wednesday after the country’s Supreme Court amended her imprisonment to 3 1/2 years of suspended sentence, Reuters reports.

In September, an Azeri court sentenced Ismayilova, a prominent journalist known for exposing corruption among the ruling elite, to seven-and-a-half years in jail.

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