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". – Mr President, the Government of Azerbaijan is continuing its crackdown on opposition political groups. On 21 May, the police and paramilitary forces beat up and arrested participants in a peaceful opposition rally in Baku. The official excuse was that permission to hold the rally was denied and this despite an apparent order of 12 May from President Aliyev, instructing government authorities to respect freedom of assembly. Dozens of civilians were arrested in that incident and many journalists were beaten up by the police.
It is worth noting that the purpose of the rally was to voice the need for amendments to Azerbaijan’s election laws, in order to prevent the authorities from falsifying election results, to ask for the creation of an independent public broadcasting authority, and to demand the prosecution of the murderer of the independent journalist Elmar Huseynov, who was shot dead outside his apartment last month.
In other police operations, scores of known opposition activists, including the heads of youth organisations, were rounded up and mistreated. Parliamentary elections are due in November and it seems that a repeat pattern of violence instigated and carried out by the State is starting again, as it did before the 2003 elections.
We call on the Government of Azerbaijan, and in particular President Aliyev, to proceed quickly with the necessary electoral reforms and to show the necessary respect for its citizens’ right to free, fair and democratic elections."@en1
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