By empty (6/8/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The police officer who assaulted Farid Teymurkhanli, a reporter for the independent daily \"Ayna/Zerkalo,\" during the unsanctioned 21 May opposition demonstration in Baku has been dismissed, Interior Minister Ramil Usubov told Turan. Teymurkhanli, who suffered a concussion after a blow to the head, has asked the Prosecutor-General\'s Office to bring criminal charges against the police officer in question, whose name Usubov did not divulge. (Turan).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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