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    Azeri-Press news agency (APA)
    December 30, 2014 Tuesday


    Azerbaijanis hold rally outside Armenian embassy in Georgia for Dilgam
    Asgarov and Shahbaz Guliyev to be released



    Head of the Diaspora organization: "We will pitch tents before the
    European Court of Human Rights and go on a hunger strike there with
    the same demand"

    A group of Azerbaijanis on Tuesday held a rally outside the Armenian
    embassy in Georgia, demanding the release of Dilgam Asgarov and
    Shahbaz Guliyev, taken hostage by Armenians in Kalbajar.

    Head of the Azerbaijani Diaspora Center in Bavaria (Germany) Akif
    Mammadov, head of the Marhamat Social Union on Protection for Orphans
    Irada Nasirova, Dilgam Asgrov's son Kurdoglu Asgarov as well as a
    number of Azerbaijani students studying in Georgian universities took
    part in the rally.

    Holding Azerbaijani flags, portraits of Dilgam Asgarov and Shahbaz
    Guliyev and a variety of placards in front of the embassy, protesters
    chanted slogans such as "Sargsyan is a fascist!", "Liberate
    Azerbaijani lands!", "Free our hostages!", "Liberate our lands!", etc.
    They also regarded the judicial process conducted in NagornoKarabakh
    as illegal, noting the existence of Azerbaijani hostages and captives
    in Armenia. In the end, participants presented a declaration to the
    Armenian embassy.

    The protesters then marched toward the Marjanishvili Street, one of
    the central streets in Tbilisi, chanting similar slogans. The rally
    passed without incident.

    Tbilisi residents as well as Azerbaijani, Armenian and Georgian
    citizens condemned the illegal and inhumane actions of Armenia. One
    Tbilisi resident of Armenian origin, Gulnara Mkrchtyan, burst into
    tears, telling the journalists that she once lived in Baku.

    "I once lived in Baku. It's with a heavy heart that I witnessed what
    was happening. I'm ashamed of the actions of the Armenian politicians.
    Could I say the Armenian government is right? The Azerbaijani hostages
    must be freed," she said.

    Dilgam Asgarov's son Kurdoghlu Asgarov told APA that he is aware of
    the illegal "judgment" passed on his father.

    "The judgment was passed yesterday. I don't recognize the judgment of
    such a socalled "court". I am from Kalbajar, and my father went there
    with his friend to visit their relatives' and parents' graves.
    Armenian soldiers detained them in the Azerbaijani lands and have been
    torturing them for six months," he added.

    Akif Mammadov, head of the Azerbaijani Diaspora Center in Bavaria said
    that he came to Georgia from Germany to take part in this rally.

    "We today held a rally outside the Armenian embassy in Georgia with
    consent of Tbilisi City Hall and demanded the release of Russian
    citizen Dilgam Asgarov and Azerbaijani citizen Shahbaz Guliyev who
    were taken hostage by Armenian soldiers. Following this, we will go to
    Moscow and hold a really outside the Armenian embassy there, then we
    will go to European countries, pitch tents outside the European Court
    of Human Rights and go on a hunger strike there with the same demand.
    We plan to hold this rally on January 15," he noted.

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