Clashes between police and residents of Bina settlement took place on November 8 on the northern outskirts of Baku. According to "Azadlig" radio, about a thousand inhabitants of the quarter, called the "State Farm", came out to protest, demanding the authrities to clean a road flooded during a recent downpour.
A resident Roman Mamedov saud that it was a peaceful, but police were brutally disperse protesters. Clashes toughened after the police began to beat with a truncheon an old woman who fell into a puddle.
During the clashes, was detained about 30 people who were taken to the Khazar districtpolice. Police arrested even those who were filming on mobile phones.
The reason for the protest is that after the rain a road length of 3-4 km was completely under water and the buses do not run on these roads; the residents are forced to go thruogh dirty water to the asphalt.
The attempts to get comments in Turan were futile. Meanwhile, the villagers are threatening to protest tomorrow again.-16D-
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