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AZERBAIJAN DAILY DIGEST
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From: Daria Solovieva (dsolovieva@sorosny.org)
Date: Tue Feb 10 2004 - 12:23:24 EST
Some 60 people currently being held in the Bailov pretrial-detention center
for their alleged roles in the 15-16 October clashes in the wake of the
Azerbaijani presidential election have begun a protest hunger strike, Turan
and Interfax reported on 9 February. They include Musavat Party Deputy
Chairman Arif Gadjiev, Umid Party Chairman Igbal Agazade, and People's
Party Chairman Panakh Huseinov. Eight opposition activists currently on
trial for their alleged roles in the protests have also begun a hunger strike to
protest police brutality, Tutan reported on 9 February. One of them, a
member of a local election commission from Gazakh Raion, said local
police "treated me in such a way that I was ready to confess I had murdered
[U.S. President] John F. Kennedy." LF
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