Elchin Gasanzade

Affiliated media: News website 'Yukselish info', Journalist

Incident date: June 30, 2020

Attack type:

• Pressure on a media worker via judicial and/or economic pressure on relatives and loved ones

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: turan.az

Location: Azerbaijan, Mingecevir

Additional information:

According to Elchin Gasanzade, his wife was dismissed from the Mingecevir water utility company under the pretext of "layoffs”. According to the journalist, the reduction among 220 employees affected only his wife. “She suffered because of my publications about corruption. Government officials are behind this. They drove me out of a rented apartment, then filed a lawsuit demanding my arrest, and now they left my wife unemployed,” Gasanzade said. Gasanzade is an employee of the news website 'Yukselish info'. He is writing about human rights and corruption among officials.