By empty (7/11/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
One hundred and eighty-seven people were killed in the riots in Andizhan on May 13, Andizhan region Prosecutor Bakhadir Dekhkanov said. \"Among the victims are 94 terrorists, 20 law enforcement officials, 11 servicemen and 57 civilians. Five victims have yet to be identified,\" Dekhkanov said at a meeting in the Andizhan region administration on Monday.By empty (7/10/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Some 10,000 opposition members, many dressed in orange, demonstrated Sunday in the centre of Azerbaijan\'s capital Baku to call for fair parliamentary elections in November. Participants at the rally, organised by the opposition Azadlyg (Freedom) Bloc, shouted: \"freedom\" and called on President Ilham Aliyev to ensure that the November 6 poll is free. Many wore orange clothing, a symbol inspired by last year\'s \"orange revolution\" that brought pro-Western opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko to power in Ukraine.By empty (7/10/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyzstan\'s acting President and presidential candidate Kurmanbek Bakiyev said the early presidential elections being held on Sunday will be fair and transparent. \"For the first time in recent years, elections offer each citizen the right to choose,\" Bakiyev told journalists at a polling station. \"Our citizens have an opportunity to support the leader they think is best for the country.By empty (7/9/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Baku\'s Nasimi District Court annulled on 8 July the guilty verdict handed down in October 2004 to DPA First Deputy Chairman Serdar Djalaloglu on charges resulting from the clashes in Baku between police and opposition protesters in the wake of the disputed October 2003 presidential election. Djalaloglu is the fifth of the seven oppositionists sentenced in that case to be exonerated. However, the Sabail District Court on 8 July declined an appeal by National Democratic Movement Chairman Iskander Hamidov to annul the charges of abuse of power and embezzlement on which he was sentenced in 1995 to 14 years\' imprisonment.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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