Opposition news

SUPREME COURT TO CONSIDER PNIA SUIT

On May 2, the Supreme Board is expected to consider the appeal filed by the PNIA claiming that the parliamentary election of November 5, 2000 was illegitimate, a source from the party said Tuesday.

It is remembered that after the Central Election Commission had approved the election outcomes, PNIA filed a lawsuit demanding abolition of the results on the non-constituency system. After the court had overruled the suit, the party addressed the Supreme Court.

OPPOSITION SCHEDULES DEMONSTRATION FOR LATE MAY

A rally demanding protection of the motherland and democracy is scheduled for late May, but neither the timing nor the venue of it has yet been determined, the Musavat chairman Isa Gambar announced following a meeting of the pro-Musavat DemCongress Monday.

According to him, the organizing committee for the rally will be set up after all political forces to be involved are invited.

Asked why Musavat did not take part in a recent ADP rally, I. Gambar said his party doesn't join the rallies it does not organize.

ADP ISSUES STATEMENT

The Azerbaijan Democratic Party (ADP) has issued a statement condemning the beating of the chairman of its Nakhchivan branch Amrali Babayev.

The statement says that a group of people dressed in civilian clothes and police uniforms, led by the chief of the criminal search section of the Nakhchivan Interior Department Sahib Panahov, broke into the ADP branch in Nakhchivan and brutally beat the chairman of the ADP Mejlis A. Babayev.

The ADP holds the law-enforcement bodies responsible for potential consequences if the party members exercise their constitutional right to self-defense against unlawful acts by police.