The Prosecutor General’s Office of Azerbaijan has banned known journalist Hatice Ismailova from leaving the country, the BBC Russian Service reported citing the journalist’s Facebook account.

Ismailova was detained on the border, when she was heading from capital city Baku to the Czech Republic, to participate in an international conference.

The journalist collaborates with the RFE/RL Azerbaijani service. 

The source recalled that on October 4, Hatice Ismailova was briefly detained at Baku airport, upon her return from Strasbourg, France, where a Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe session was convened.