Khadija Ismayilova

Quick Facts

Full Name	Khadija Ismayilova
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	May 27, 1976(1976-05-27)
Age	48
Birthplace	Baku
Country	Azerbaijan
Horoscope	Gemini

Khadija Ismayilova Biography

Khadija Ismayilova is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on May 27, 1976 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Khadija Rovshan qizi Ismayilova, also Ismailova, (Azerbaijani: Xədicə Rövşən qızı İsmayılova, pronounced /xædiːˈdʒæ ismɑˈjɯlovɑ/ ; born 27 May 1976) is an Azerbaijani investigative journalist and radio host who is currently working for the Azerbaijani service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, until recently as the host of the daily debate show İşdən Sonra. She is a member of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. In December 2014, Ismayilova was arrested on charges of incitement to suicide, a charge widely criticized by human rights organizations as bogus. On 1 September 2015, Ismayilova was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison under charges of embezzlement and tax evasion. On 25 May 2016, the Azerbaijani supreme court ordered Ismayilova released on probation. In December 2017, Ismayilova received the Right Livelihood Award, often referred to as “Alternative Nobel Prize”, “for her courage and tenacity in exposing corruption at the highest levels of government through outstanding investigative journalism in the name of transparency and accountability.” Khadija was not allowed to travel from Azerbaijan to Sweden to receive the award.

Meanwhile, Ismayilova carried out her own personal investigation. She claimed that the stamp shown on the letter containing the snapshots and supposedly sent from Moscow was fake. In addition, according to her, a neighbourhood maintenance worker said that an additional telephone line had been installed in her apartment in July 2011 by technicians from the telephone exchange. The telephone exchange, in turn, said the technicians acted on the orders of the Ministry of National Security which owns an office there that the exchange has no control of. Ismayilova added that in July 2011, she had been abroad and that according to the maintenance worker, an unidentified man had met him at the door claiming to be the owner of the apartment.

On 26 April 2012, the Attorney General’s office released the names of all those who lived or visited the apartment where the sex-taping took place. Ismayilova criticised this act, saying that instead of carrying out an investigation, the Attorney General’s office is echoing the blackmailers in intervening in her personal life by doing this.

In April 2012, British pop singer Sandie Shaw joined an Amnesty International campaign to end human rights abuses in Azerbaijan. Shaw stated on behalf of Ismayilova’s case: “That anyone would stoop so low in an attempt to silence an independent journalist is sickening. The people behind this appalling blackmail and smear campaign must be brought to justice. And the persecution of independent journalists in Azerbaijan must stop.”

Following the March 2010 publication of a Washington Post article, not written by Ismayilova but which used her previous work as background information, which alleged that the eleven-year-old son of Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev owned real estate in the United Arab Emirates worth 44 million USD, Ismayilova co-published an article based on her investigation which shed light on the business activity of other members of the President’s family and the family’s close circle of friends. The article specifically described Ilham Aliyev’s younger daughter Arzu Aliyeva’s activities, as she reportedly owned a bank that had never been privatised since its establishment. Arzu Aliyeva was also reported a co-owner of a holding that had been winning unannounced tenders and seized control of all profitable services of Azerbaijan Airlines, such as airport taxi, duty-free, on-board catering, and airplane technical support, without any transparent financial reporting.

Khadija Ismayilova Net Worth

Khadija Ismayilova is one of the richest Journalist from Azerbaijan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Khadija Ismayilova 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Khadija Ismayilova attended Baku School #135 and graduated in 1992. She then graduated from the Baku State University with a degree in philology in 1997. For the next ten years, she worked as a journalist for a number of local and foreign media outlets, including the newspaper Zerkalo, Caspian Business News and the Azerbaijani edition of the Voice of America.

Ismayilova was the head of the Azerbaijani service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty from 2008 to 2010, after which she continued working there as a regular staff reporter. Beginning in 2010, a series of her articles dealing with state-level corruption in Azerbaijan caused great controversy as they explicitly named Azerbaijan’s current President Ilham Aliyev, his wife Mehriban Aliyeva and their children as engaging in corruption. The government never issued a comment with regard to any of these reports. Two of these articles were named best investigative reports of 2010 and 2011 by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Ismayilova’s next controversial publication in June 2011 revealed the names of offshore companies which had been registered in the names of Aliyev’s daughters. This report also alleged that the Aliyev daughters owned one of the mobile operators and the 3G monopolist of Azerbaijan. It also claimed that the mobile operator had been falsely naming Siemens as its legal owner in order to be able to participate in state tenders to evade the Azerbaijani law not allowing newly registered companies to do so.

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In an investigation report co-authored by Ismayilova and published in May 2012, it was alleged that the AIMROC consortium in charge of extracting gold and silver worth 2.5 billion USD from the Chovdar mine is owned by three Panamanian companies (different from the ones mentioned in the previous report), with the wife and daughters of the president as their senior managers. The president’s office refused to comment on the matter.

Facts & Trivia

Jessica Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Azerbaijan. Khadija Ismayilova celebrates birthday on May 27 of every year.

While the official investigation is currently in progress, similar footage of Ismayilova, recorded at a different time, was published on a different website on 26 July 2013, accompanied by a comment attributed to blogger Emin Milli in which he allegedly said that “the videos featuring Khadija Ismayilova have done serious damage to the general democratic movement”. Emin Milli denied making that statement and referred to it as “blatant provocation”. On 2 August 2013, a group of journalists initiated a silent walking protest in support of Ismayilova. Thirty of them were detained and later released.