APA, Azerbaijan
Sept 18 2009

Quds Day rally held in village outside Azeri capital

Baku, 18 September: A Quds Day rally was held in the village of
Nardaran [a suburb of Baku] today.

A resident of the village, Masadi Mehman, has told APA [news agency]
that the rally was staged at 1800 [1300 gmt] and lasted 40
minutes. Slogans "Death to Israel", "Death to Armenians", "Liberation
to Quds and Karabakh" were chanted at the rally. Village elders
delivered speeches at the rally and called on the world to protest
against the occupier Israel.

Mehman said that the rally had passed without incidents and that
police did not intervene in the protest action.

Prior to the start of the rally, a participant in the rally, Masadi
Natiq Karimov, had been summoned to the Sabuncu district police
department. He was questioned and set free.