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    Azerbaijan court sentences NATO protesters

    The News, Pakistan
    Aug 31 2004

    BAKU: A court in the former Soviet republic of Azerbiajan handed
    out prison sentences Monday to protesters who had tried to storm
    a conference of NATO officials in the Azeri capital two months
    ago. The court found six protesters guilty of public order offences
    and resisting arrest, and ordered that they should be sent to prison
    for terms ranging from three to five years. The protesters had been
    demonstrating about the presence at the NATO meeting of two officers
    from Armenia's armed forces. Armenia and Azerbaijan fought a war in
    the early 1990s over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. The
    two neighbouring countries remain at a state of war, though there
    is no large-scale fighting. Among those sentenced Monday was Akif
    Nagi, leader of the hardline Karabakh Liberation Organisation,
    which favours new military action against Armenia. He was given five
    years in jail. Supporters and relatives of the convicted men staged
    a protest in the courtroom when the sentences were handed down but
    police dispersed them.
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