Ex-editor gets two-year suspended sentence
The Absheron District Court of Azerbaijan has handed
down a two-year suspended sentence for the former chief editor of
Khalg Gazeti official newspaper, Mahal Ismayilov. The public
prosecutor had asked for three years.
The suit against the former editor was filed by his summer-house maid who claimed she had been physically and morally humiliated by Ismayilov.
Ismayilov described the allegations as being "politically motivated."
The suit against the former editor was filed by his summer-house maid who claimed she had been physically and morally humiliated by Ismayilov.
Ismayilov described the allegations as being "politically motivated."
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