Amal Clooney offers to help jailed Azerbaijani Journalist

New York, Jan 20: Amal Clooney is in news again! But this time, the beauty is fighting for justice. A human rights lawyer, she has offered to fight the case of jailed Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova in the European Court of Human Rights.

The journalist and her lawyer are said to be considering the proposal. Amal Clooney is the wife of famed Hollywood actor George Clooney and is also a renowned lawyer who is known to have taken prominent cases in Egypt, Armenia, and the Maldives, defending people imprisoned under political influences that are often seen as violation of Human Rights.

Ismayilova was sentenced to 7 and half years of prison in September 2015 for writing reports on the family members of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, who are alleged to have links with massive business and real estate holdings

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