From 10 to 20 people have been arrested during today's protest rally in central Baku. According to the party "Musavat", seven activists of the party’s youth organization, including its leader, Tural Abbasli, were detained.
Activists of other political parties and organizations were also detained and taken to the police department. Among them are particularly youth activists from "Nida" Movement.
The total number of detainees is not known because there is not official information on this. -02В-
Police ousts the protesters ; some are detained
Several protesters have been detained by police in the Fountain Square. The others were pushed aside to the Constitutional Court, according to Turan correspondent.
The participants of the rally are trying to move in the direction of the seaside boulevard, but police blocked them, demanding to disperse. However, several hundred people still are chanting and demand to punish the perpetrators of the soldiers deaths.
Among the protesters are not only young people, but also soldiers' mothers. One of them suffered from police brutality. New participants approach the place of the rally. -16В-
Hundreds of young people begin to protest in the central Baku
Despite the appeals and persuasions of the authorities, hundreds of young people gathered at the Fountain Square in Baku to protest against the death of a soldier.
The reason for the rally was the death of a soldier Ceyhun Gubadov on January 7 Dashkesan region.
Despite the approval of the Ministry of Defense that the soldier died from heart failure, the family presented evidence that Ceyhun was killed.
"No murders in peacetime," "Stop lying!" were chanting protesters who were surrounded by police trying to evict them from the area.
Young people are sitting on the ground and hold each other so that it was impossible to separate the.
According to Turan correspondent from the scene, no one has been detained yet. -16В-
Emergency measures are taken to prevent the youth rally in Baku
It appears that the authorities are extremely scared with the scale of protest rally against the soldiers' deaths which is to take place today in the center of Baku, and therefore they are taking all measures to prevent it.
So, this morning reinforced police units and security services are concentrated in each district of the capital (in schools), and wait for orders.
The authorities took unprecedented promotional measures: on behalf of the many pro-government NGOs they distributed calling for not to hold a rally and not to destabilize the situation. Pro-government media "suddenly" recognized the fact of groundless deaths of soldiers in the army, and called to investigate the facts and punish those responsible.
Mother of a soldier Ceyhun Gubadova, who died in the military unit in Dashkesan region was brought to the TV channels. Psychological depressed woman called on the youth not to attend the rally, although just yesterday outraged and demanded she the public not to be silent.
Rovshan Akbarov, commander of the compound where the soldier Gubadov died, gave an interview in which he reproached himself for what happened, and assured of the loyalty to the president. Finally, the press service of the Defense Ministry has also recognized the soldier's death as a result of misconduct, and promised that will set the true cause of the incident. Although a couple of days ago, the Ministry too kept silent and pro-government media merged information that the soldier died from heart failure.
Finally, the president of the country, has stopped his vacation, and returned in Baku.
Youth young activists sent appeals to 100,000 addresses inviting to participate in the protest rally; 16,000 people supported the call to hold a rally at 16:00 am at the Fountain Square..-02В-
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