Azeri police arrest organizers of attack on NATO conference
ANS TV, Baku
22 Jun 04
The trial of those arrested in the protest action organized by the
Karabakh Liberation Organization outside Hotel Europe, the venue of a
NATO conference attended by two Armenian officers, was held today. Two
of the arrested, Barat Elmanli and Gunduz Umudov, have been released.
The chief of the Nasimi district police department, Bagir Bagirov, has
told ANS that criminal proceedings have been instituted against five
other people, including the chairman of the Karabakh Liberation
Organization, Akif Nagi.
They are being charged with hooliganism.