Baku / 15.04.18 / Turan: Six activists of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) were arrested on the eve of the Saturday rally of the opposition.
Activists of the party Saghif Gurbanov, Vidadi Guliyev, Ismail Hasanov, Baba Suleimanov, Ali Imankhanly and Ruslan Nasirli were detained on April 13 and sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest, Turan was told in the party's press service.
Two more PFPA activists, Orkhan Bakhyshly and Abdulla Mahmudov, remain under administrative arrest. They were arrested on the eve of the rally on March 31 and received 30 days of arrest.
The rally on April 14 in Baku was held as a sign of protest against the results of the early presidential elections.
PFPA leader Ali Kerimli said at the rally the authorities pressured members of this party to disrupt the rally, with six people arrested and hundreds summoned to the police and threatened not to participate in the rally. -03B06--
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