BAKU: Radical group members get 4 to 6 years in prison

Radical group members get 4 to 6 years in prison

Assa-Irada
Aug 31 2004

Baku, August 30, AssA-Irada

The verdict on the Garabagh Liberation Organization (GLO) chairman
Akif Naghi and five members of the organization, who were arrested
during the June 22 picket in a protest against the participation of
Armenian officers in a NATO conference held in Baku on June 21-23,
was uttered at the Nasimi district court on Monday.

The GLO chairman was sentenced to 5 years in jail, four members of
the organization to 4 years and deputy chairman, the Garabagh war
invalid Firudin Mammadov to 3 years.

The radical group members are accused of resisting police, blocking the
road on Tbilisi Avenue and disturbing the work of a NATO preparatory
conference held at the Europe Hotel within the Partnership for
Peace program and causing damage worth 1.700 million manats ($340)
to the hotel.*