Azerbaijani Insiders Benefited from Currency Collapse
In a surprise move, Azerbaijan’s Central Bank devalued the national currency, the manat, in 2015. But was everybody...
Corruptistan: Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan: Aliyev Family, Friends Cruise Aboard SOCAR Super Yachts
Friends and family of President Ilham Aliyev make free use of two luxury yachts worth US$ 59 million that are owned by the...
Azerbaijan: First Family’s Russian Dacha
Seven kilometers west of Moscow along the Rublyevo-Uspenskoye Highway, a three-meter-high green metal fence cuts through the...
Aliyevs Own Some of the Best Hotels in Baku
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev has spent billions on capturing the world’s attention to the European Games which end...
The Mansion on the Heath
Ilham Aliyev’s family owns a 10,500-square-foot London mansion worth more than US$ 25 million. The house is on Hampstead...
Azerbaijani First Family Big on Banking
From a distance, Azerbaijan may look like any other oil-rich country. Its capital Baku shines at night, thanks to the...
Interview with Khadija: 'It's the revolving door of political prison in Azerbaijan'
On her first day of freedom, between CNN’s Christiane Amanpour and the Voice of America, Khadija Ismayilova made time to...
Journalist Khadija Ismayilova Set Free After Final Appeal Hearing
Journalist Khadija Ismayilova was set free after her final appeal hearing today at the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan two days...
The Azerbaijan Crackdown: An Update
Soon, it will have been a year since reporters for OCCRP and other organizations took a long, hard look at what is going on...
In Full: Journalist Khadija Ismayilova's Final Statement to Azerbaijan Court
The following text is from Khadija Ismayilova's statement given today to Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes in Baku.
The Speakers' Corner
Free speech is sometimes severely punished in Azerbaijan, a country where scores of journalists and activists are in jail...
Forged in fire: the making of an investigative reporter
Khadija Ismayilova knew she didn’t have to go to prison. But in her mind, her only other option was to exile herself from...
The people behind bars in Azerbaijan, and how they got there
The numbers alone are appalling: nearly 100 political prisoners. Dozens of attacks on journalists, stretching back nearly 15...
Khadija Ismayilova: Prison is Not the End of Life
A letter was just received from journalist Khadija Ismayilova, confined in Azerbaijan.
Lobbyist’s Call for West to Champion Azerbaijan is Deceitful and Dangerous
When I saw former Rep. Dan Burton’s column about wonderful Azerbaijan in the Washington Times today, I wanted to read it...
Azerbaijan First Family’s London Private Enclave
Leyla and Arzu Aliyeva, daughters of Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, and their cousins Mirjalal and Mir Jamal Pashayev,...
Aliyevs’ Secret Mining Empire
The First Family of Azerbaijan has taken control of some of the country’s richest gold, copper and silver deposits through a...
How the Family that Runs Azerbaijan Built an Empire of Hidden Wealth
Documents peel away three layers of secret ownership in a conglomerate and lead to gold mines and overseas real estate
Aliyevs Seek Five Gold Fields in Kyrgyzstan
The First Family of Azerbaijan has a majority stake in another gold mining consortium, the Seychelles-based Redgold Estates,...
US/Azerbaijan: Lobbyists Continue to Flout Travel Rules
In May of 2013, the government of Azerbaijan, via its State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR), injected $750,000 into an...
How to Build Yourself a Stealth Lobbyist, Azerbaijani style
The rise of Brenda Shaffer as a scholar and oft-quoted expert in the field of energy politics illustrates just how...
How Azerbaijan Manipulates Public Opinion in the US
To see how foreign interests distort reality to steer political debate and influence American foreign policy, look no...
Building on a Shaky Foundation
It is no secret that the family of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev likes to buy expensive buildings around the world,...
The TeliaSonera Scandals: A Swedish Trauma
The Telecom giant admits its practices were unethical and maybe illegal but has taken few steps to fix them.
Khadija Calls Latest TeliaSonera Bribe Story "Dangerous"
The imprisoned investigative journalist says this week's revelations of massive bribes in the Azerbaijani telecoms industry...
Offshores Close to President Paid Nothing for State Share of Telecom
Taxpayers in Azerbaijan lost more than US$ 600 million in a deal that made no sense for all involved except for a murky...
Azerbaijan Telecom
Taxpayers in Azerbaijan lost more than $600 million in a deal that made no sense for all involved except for a murky offshore deeply connected to President Ilham Aliyev.
A company close to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and his family likely walked off with more than US$ 1 billion in a takeover of his country’s stake in Azercell Telecom, the largest mobile operator in the country. The process was aided by a subsidiary of TeliaSonera, the Swedish-Finnish telecom giant, which acted against its own interest to allow the deal to happen.
The TeliaSonera Scandals: A Swedish Trauma
The Telecom giant admits its practices were unethical and maybe illegal but has taken few steps to fix them.
Khadija Calls Latest TeliaSonera Bribe Story "Dangerous"
The imprisoned investigative journalist says this week's revelations of massive bribes in the Azerbaijani telecoms industry...
Offshores Close to President Paid Nothing for State Share of Telecom
Taxpayers in Azerbaijan lost more than US$ 600 million in a deal that made no sense for all involved except for a murky...
The Khadija Project
Investigative reporter Khadija Ismayilova worked with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Azerbaijani service and with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project covering the corruption of Azerbaijan's ruling family before she was arrested on Dec. 5, 2014 and sentenced to 7.5 years in prison on September 2015. She was set free after a successful appeal to Azerbaijan's Supreme Court on May 25, 2016, two days before her 40th birthday.
The Khadija Project was started by colleagues and friends of Khadija Ismayilova to finish the work she began before her imprisonment. Khadija made this request of us and not only did we fulfil it as her friends, we felt a moral obligation to do so as journalists. The Khadija Project will continue on behalf of other journalists behind bars in Azerbaijan.
About Khadija Ismayilova
Khadija Ismayilova hosted a popular program on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Azerbaijani service and worked as a senior...
About the Khadija Project
Khadija Ismayilova hosted a popular program on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Azerbaijani service and worked as a senior...
Azerbaijani Insiders Benefited from Currency Collapse
In a surprise move, Azerbaijan’s Central Bank devalued the national currency, the manat, in 2015. But was everybody...
Azerbaijan: Aliyev Family, Friends Cruise Aboard SOCAR Super Yachts
Friends and family of President Ilham Aliyev make free use of two luxury yachts worth US$ 59 million that are owned by the...
Azerbaijan: First Family’s Russian Dacha
Seven kilometers west of Moscow along the Rublyevo-Uspenskoye Highway, a three-meter-high green metal fence cuts through the...
Aliyevs Own Some of the Best Hotels in Baku
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev has spent billions on capturing the world’s attention to the European Games which end...
The Mansion on the Heath
Ilham Aliyev’s family owns a 10,500-square-foot London mansion worth more than US$ 25 million. The house is on Hampstead...
Azerbaijani First Family Big on Banking
From a distance, Azerbaijan may look like any other oil-rich country. Its capital Baku shines at night, thanks to the...
Interview with Khadija: 'It's the revolving door of political prison in Azerbaijan'
On her first day of freedom, between CNN’s Christiane Amanpour and the Voice of America, Khadija Ismayilova made time to...
Journalist Khadija Ismayilova Set Free After Final Appeal Hearing
Journalist Khadija Ismayilova was set free after her final appeal hearing today at the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan two days...
The Azerbaijan Crackdown: An Update
Soon, it will have been a year since reporters for OCCRP and other organizations took a long, hard look at what is going on...
In Full: Journalist Khadija Ismayilova's Final Statement to Azerbaijan Court
The following text is from Khadija Ismayilova's statement given today to Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes in Baku.
The Speakers' Corner
Free speech is sometimes severely punished in Azerbaijan, a country where scores of journalists and activists are in jail...
Forged in fire: the making of an investigative reporter
Khadija Ismayilova knew she didn’t have to go to prison. But in her mind, her only other option was to exile herself from...
The people behind bars in Azerbaijan, and how they got there
The numbers alone are appalling: nearly 100 political prisoners. Dozens of attacks on journalists, stretching back nearly 15...
Khadija Ismayilova: Prison is Not the End of Life
A letter was just received from journalist Khadija Ismayilova, confined in Azerbaijan.
Lobbyist’s Call for West to Champion Azerbaijan is Deceitful and Dangerous
When I saw former Rep. Dan Burton’s column about wonderful Azerbaijan in the Washington Times today, I wanted to read it...
Azerbaijan First Family’s London Private Enclave
Leyla and Arzu Aliyeva, daughters of Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, and their cousins Mirjalal and Mir Jamal Pashayev,...
Aliyevs’ Secret Mining Empire
The First Family of Azerbaijan has taken control of some of the country’s richest gold, copper and silver deposits through a...
How the Family that Runs Azerbaijan Built an Empire of Hidden Wealth
Documents peel away three layers of secret ownership in a conglomerate and lead to gold mines and overseas real estate
Aliyevs Seek Five Gold Fields in Kyrgyzstan
The First Family of Azerbaijan has a majority stake in another gold mining consortium, the Seychelles-based Redgold Estates,...
US/Azerbaijan: Lobbyists Continue to Flout Travel Rules
In May of 2013, the government of Azerbaijan, via its State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR), injected $750,000 into an...
How to Build Yourself a Stealth Lobbyist, Azerbaijani style
The rise of Brenda Shaffer as a scholar and oft-quoted expert in the field of energy politics illustrates just how...
How Azerbaijan Manipulates Public Opinion in the US
To see how foreign interests distort reality to steer political debate and influence American foreign policy, look no...
Building on a Shaky Foundation
It is no secret that the family of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev likes to buy expensive buildings around the world,...
The TeliaSonera Scandals: A Swedish Trauma
The Telecom giant admits its practices were unethical and maybe illegal but has taken few steps to fix them.
Khadija Calls Latest TeliaSonera Bribe Story "Dangerous"
The imprisoned investigative journalist says this week's revelations of massive bribes in the Azerbaijani telecoms industry...
Offshores Close to President Paid Nothing for State Share of Telecom
Taxpayers in Azerbaijan lost more than US$ 600 million in a deal that made no sense for all involved except for a murky...
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