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    Moscow Times
    July 6 2004


    Azeri Detention Upheld

    BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) -- An Azeri appeals court has upheld a lower
    court's decision to jail five activists who disrupted a NATO forum in
    Baku last month to protest the involvement of two Armenian officers,
    their lawyer said.

    The protest, which briefly disrupted the NATO forum, highlighted the
    still simmering tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the
    disputed Nagorny Karabakh territory.

    Akif Nagi, head of the Organization of Karabakh Freedom, and five
    other group members pushed through police cordons, broke glass doors
    and stormed into a conference hall in Baku's Europe Hotel on June 22.
    The protesters and hotel security guards suffered minor injuries in
    the incident in the hotel and the meeting resumed after several
    minutes.

    They were accused of hooliganism and ordered by the Nasimi Regional
    Court in Baku to be held for two months. The appeals court upheld the
    ruling Friday, lawyer Elchin Gambarov said.
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