Elchin Ismailly

Affiliated media: Azadliq, Journalist

Incident date: May 16, 2020

Attack type:

• Attacks via judicial or economic means

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: turan.az

Location: Azerbaijan, Baku

Additional information:

A penal colony in Azerbaijan has confirmed cases of coronavirus and has spent a few days under strict quarantine rules. According to the same source, even lawyers are banned from meeting defendants. Elchin Ismailly, who works for the newspaper “Azadlyg”, has been put in solitary confinement for five days, after criticising the actions of the management at the penal colony for their wrong use of measures to fight coronavirus.