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    MASS PROTEST DEMANDING ILHAM ALIYEV'S RESIGNATION IS HELD IN AZERBAIJAN

    20:04 10/11/2014 >> POLITICS

    In Azerbaijan, the oppositional National Council of Democratic
    Forces held a meeting on November 9. It was aimed at releasing civil
    activists, the Azerbaijani service of Radio "Liberty" reports.

    According to the article in the course of the meeting the chairman
    of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan Ali Kerimli stated that the
    Azerbaijani authorities will not be able to destroy the civil society
    and opposition parties in the country.

    "Despite the massive repressions people have come out to the stadium
    and are now protesting against them.

    The authorities wanted to intimidate the people and all of you with
    the repressions, and to silence the Azerbaijani society. But it
    didn't succeed. They failed, despite the arrests of the activists,
    journalists and bloggers," said Kerimli.

    According to the Azerbaijani news agency "Turan", in its turn, the
    chairman of the National Council Jamil Hasanli, claiming about more
    than 100 political prisoners in Azerbaijan; he stated that even
    in absolute monarchies there are no such big numbers of detained
    government critics.

    Regarding social issues, Hasanli noted that the pensioners' pensions
    are not enough to purchase drugs. Treatment Azerbaijanis forced to
    travel to neighboring Iran. Despite the potential of agriculture the
    farmers drag out a miserable existence.

    Hasanli stated that there is a need for electoral reforms and
    changes in composition of election commissions in order to ensure
    the confidence of people towards the elections.

    According to "Caucasian Knot", the Azerbaijani opposition rally
    ended with the adoption of a resolution that demanded the release of
    political prisoners, the electoral reform, solving social problems,
    European integration of Azerbaijan.

    The article notes that in the course of the rally the speakers speeches
    were being interrupted by slogans like "Resign!" which probably meant
    the resignation of the President Ilham Aliyev. Almost in the middle
    of the rally the sound amplifiers were disconnected just in a few
    minutes after the last slogans were chanted. The organizers explained
    this by deliberate power outage. However, this outraged the protesters
    even more, and they started to chant the slogans more intensively.

    At the same time, as noted in the article, a group of believers had
    attended the meeting. They were holding the placards of the arrested
    leader of the Islamic Party Movsum Samedov, theologians Abgyulya
    Suleymanli and Taleh Bagirzadeh.

    Member of the rally Committee, deputy chairman of the Popular Front
    Party of Azerbaijan Fuad Gahramanli said that there were about seven
    thousand people attending the rally.

    On October 12 in Baku another rally demanding the release of the
    political prisoners was held by the opposition parties.

    Source: Panorama.am

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