More than a dozen are arrested during protest rally

 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-