In April 2012 Shaw joined an Amnesty International campaign to end human rights abuses in Azerbaijan , host country of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest , after the journalist Khadija Ismayilova was blackmailed and sex taped . Shaw stated : " That anyone would stoop so low in an attempt to silence an independent journalist is sickening . The people behind this appalling blackmail and smear campaign must be brought to justice . And the persecution of independent journalists in Azerbaijan must stop . " In August 2014 , Shaw was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to '' The Guardian '' expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September 's referendum on that issue
2012 Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest 2012
Sandie Shaw