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More than 80 detained in Baku rally attempt

Publisher Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Publication Date 19 June 2010
Cite as Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, More than 80 detained in Baku rally attempt, 19 June 2010, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/4c2b5e4c23.html [accessed 5 June 2023]
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June 19, 2010

BAKU – More than 80 activists of the opposition Popular Front Party were detained in a rally attempt on June 19 in Baku.

The activists were protesting government restrictions on freedom of assembly, including the banning of any protest actions in the central squares of the capital.

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