Ismail Djalilov, Author at Index on Censorship

Ismail Djalilov

Ismail Djalilov is a journalist in Azerbaijan and the US, and a human rights and LGBTI rights activist based in Washington DC.

Trolls and insults: Azerbaijan’s exiled media increasingly under fire

by Ismail Djalilov | 31 Jul 2019

After the total capture of the media environment inside the country, the government of Ilham Aliyev has turned its attention to silencing critics in exile.

Illiberal democracies: Awash in media without plurality

by Ismail Djalilov | 20 Aug 2018

Visitors to Eurasian countries — Turkey, Russia, Ukraine or, to a lesser extent, Azerbaijan — might be impressed by the sheer number of domestic television channels that offer news programming. But all the coverage doesn’t translate into media plurality.