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RADICAL GROUP MEMBERS GET 4 TO 6 YEARS IN PRISON
Baku, August 30, AssA-Irada
The verdict on the Garabagh Liberation Organization (GLO) chairman Akif Naghi and five members of the organization, who were arrested during the June 22 picket in a protest against the participation of Armenian officers in a NATO conference held in Baku on June 21-23, was uttered at the Nasimi district court on Monday. The GLO chairman was sentenced to 5 years in jail, four members of the organization to 4 years and deputy chairman, the Garabagh war invalid Firudin Mammadov to 3 years. The radical group members are accused of resisting police, blocking the road on Tbilisi Avenue and disturbing the work of a NATO preparatory conference held at the Europe Hotel within the Partnership for Peace program and causing damage worth 1.700 million manats ($340) to the hotel.
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September 2004,
Issue No. 18
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AZERBAIJAN BECOMES 50TH IN MEDALS LIST OF ATHENS OLYMPIC GAMES
Baku, August 30,
AssA-Irada
Azerbaijan became 50th among 202 countries in the medals list of the 28th Olympic Games held in Athens, Greece on August 13-29. Thirty-eight athletes represented Azerbaijan in the Olympic Games.
Azerbaijan won one gold and four bronze medals and shared 37th place with Uzbekistan according to the number of total medals gained.
Greco-Roman wrestler Farid Mansurov won Azerbaijan’s gold medal, while boxers Fuad Aslanov and Aghasi Mammadov, shooters Irada Ashumova and Zemfira Meftahaddinova got bronze medals.
Topping the medals list of the Olympic Games was the United States followed by China and Russia.
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