Azerbaijan: Investigate Use of Lethal Force Against Protestors

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June 5, 2002 8:00PM EDT | Letter

Azerbaijan: Investigate Use of Lethal Force Against Protestors

We are writing to you to express our deep concern regarding the violent clashes
that occurred in the settlement of Nardaran, on the Absheron Peninsula, between a
combined force of Ministry of Internal Affairs troops and police, and residents of the
settlement during the evening and early morning of June 3-4.

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