Monday, April 18, 2011

A total of 65 detainees in Baku to participate in unauthorized rally

Baku. .- A total of 65 people were detained today in the Azerbaijani capital while attempting to hold an unauthorized rally by the city, police said in a press release. "Forty of those arrested were records and their cases will be brought to justice," added the official statement, which states that the remaining 25 were released after being warned.

Baku police said, about one hundred and fifty opponents tried to demonstrate in the park Sahil, but were dispersed by the police. The City Council had refused permission to hold the rally in the park as requested by the Public Chamber, which acts as a coordinator of several opposition formations.

City authorities have offered the opponents gather in the courtyard of a school on the outskirts of Baku, suggested that the Public Chamber branded as unacceptable. This is the third time in just over a month that the opposition is manifested in Baku without permission from the authorities: the two previous meetings were held on March 12 and April 2 and were also dissolved by the police.

The main demands of the opponents are to dissolve Parliament and call new legislative elections, the implementation of political reforms and to ensure freedom of press and assembly.

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