Eltai Turan Turk

Affiliated media: Independent journalist

Incident date: October 11, 2017

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: The Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety (IRFS)

Location: Azerbaijan, Baku

Additional information:

Journalist Eltai Turan Turk faced pressure from police while he was filming the forced eviction of internally displaced people from the building they had been living in. A police captain forced the journalist to sit in a Mercedes car. There he was subjected to various insults and beatings. He was taken to police staton No. 7, where police deleted all data from his camera.