Cat-And-Mouse In Baku

In her storied career as Azerbaijan’s most prominent investigative reporter, Khadija Ismayilova has been harassed, stalked, banned from traveling, and had compromising videos of her circulate on the Internet. She also spent 17 months in custody on charges her supporters say were politically motivated. But what Ismayilova says happened to her on February 6 as she spoke to a European Parliament panel by video conference may have charted new territory.