FIFTEEN MEMBERS OF OPPOSITION BLOC ARRESTED DURING RALLY

Turan news agency, Azerbaijan
Oct 3 2005

Baku, 3 October: Fifteen activists of the Azadliq election bloc were
attested during the 1 October protests. They were sentenced to from two
to 15 day’s imprisonment as administrative punishment, the secretary
of the bloc’s election headquarters, Fahmin Haciyev, has told Turan.

Ten of them are members of the People’s Front of Azerbaijan Party
[PFAP], five from the Democratic Party and the Musavat Party. Among
them are the PFAP chairman, Ali Karimli’s, chief bodyguard, Karim
Mehdiyev, a member of the PFAP executive board, Vaqif Panahov, the
chairman of the PFAP branch in Imisli [central Azerbaijan], Suleyman
Xanmammadov, and the chairman of the branch of the Musavat Party
in Lacin [western Azerbaijan, currently under Armenian occupation],
Faiq Suleymanov.