Investigation interested in Ismayilova"s conversation with Americans

The investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova on Thursday was again questioned as a witness in the investigation department for serious crimes of the Prosecutor General's Office. It was her third interrogation over the past three days.

But on Thursday, Ismayilova was most questioned in connection with the transfer by the MP Jeyhun Osmanli to the Prosecutor's Office of the record conversation of the journalist with two employees of the U.S. Senate in the Baku restaurant Art Garden.

The journalist herself reported about this, leaving the prosecutor's office.

According to her , the investigator asked on whose initiative the meeting was held and about the details of the conversation.

At the same time, she was told that she passed a state secret. In turn, Ismayilova said that she did not pass a state secret, because she was not a carrier of state secrets and during the meeting at the restaurant nothing unusual had happened.

In addition, on the investigation's questions on Ismayilova's distributing a material from MNS on her Facebook, which investigators treated as giving away state secrets, Ismayilova said the text of this material was distributed three years ago in the same social network on the profile called Mustafa Gozlu, and is still remaining there.

The investigator said in response that it does not really matter.

"If the criminal case has been filed in connection with the disclosure of state secrets, this stuff must be of interest to the investigation. But if the goal is to torment me, then of course they're not interested. But I still hope that the prosecution wants to investigate the disclosure of a state secret," said the journalist.

On February 21 Ismayilova has again been summoned to the prosecutor's office. -06D -