Azerbaijan Jails Reporter Who Exposed High-Level Government Corruption

A court in Azerbaijan sentenced Khadija Ismayilova, a prominent journalist whose investigations of staggering corruption among the country’s ruling elite won her international awards, to seven years and six months in jail Tuesday on charges she and supporters say are revenge for her work. The proceedings against Ismayilova mark a turning point for Azerbaijan as it cracks down on dissent and turns away from two decades of bridge-building with the West. Ismayilova’s conviction on ch ........