In 2014, the French investigative filmmaker Laurent Richard was reporting on government corruption in Azerbaijan when his fixer told him he was being watched. Richard made a copy of his footage and gave it to the Azerbaijani reporter Khadija Ismayilova, who smuggled it to France on his behalf. Sure enough, Richard was detained at the airport, and officials seized his equipment. But thanks to Ismayilova, his reporting escaped unharmed.
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