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The interview of the lawyer Amal Clooney about the case of Khadija Ismailova has caused a new hysteria in Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijani government has done again what it always does when it comes to human rights - announced about an alleged global conspiracy of the Armenians, writes Giorgi Lomsadze in  Eurasianet.

 “No matter if Clooney’s case at the European Court for Human Rights involves an Azerbaijani journalist’s struggle against the Azerbaijan state.  Azerbaijan’s state propaganda will find an Armenian connection even if there is none,” he writes.

Those sentiments were picked up by the Azerbaijan more intensely after the four-day war in April. According to him, Amal Clooney's participation in the trial with the participation of Armenia, and the support of her husband in the recognition of the Armenian Genocide cause a storm of emotions.

First, the Azerbaijani media started suspecting Amal Armenian in having Armenian roots. The Azerbaijani explanation of their recent argument by the fact that Amal Clooney is a Lebanese added fuel to the fire only, since  there are many Armenians in Lebanon. " For Baku it all comes together ," writes Lomsadze . In her interview speaking about the visit of Alyev to Washington, Clooney said that the amnesty granted by Aliyev to the prisoners is linked to the diplomatic pressure. After that interview the News.az immediately wrote that the Armenians paid Clooney to set the White House and the Capitol against Baku, the author notes .

The author also recalls that the adviser to the president Ali Hasanov called on the BBC and CNN journalists , as well as the Azerbaijani media to adhere to the " unified principle " -- namely, "Azerbaijan supports the spread of the idea of humanism, of pluralistic media."

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