Editor's Note: The following is an investigative report by the Washington, D.C.-based Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, a Kyiv Post partner.
The numbers alone are appalling: nearly 100 political prisoners. Dozens of attacks on journalists, stretching back nearly 15 years. Spurred by the high-profile arrest of investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova last December, her colleagues in Azerbaijan and the United States began to wonder about the people behind those numbers.
