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        "title": "Azerbaijan: investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova sentenced to 7.5 years",
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        "issue_of_the_day": "Not stated in the sources reviewed.",
        "outcome": "reversed",
        "outcome_on": "2016-05-25",
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        "granularity": "granular",
        "status": "historical",
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        "summary": "A Baku court convicted investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova on business and tax charges and sentenced her to seven and a half years in prison, in a case CPJ said was payback for her reporting on official corruption.",
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