Europe\'s top election-monitoring body, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, on Tuesday condemned the violent attacks directed at the opposition in Azerbaijan. \"We strongly condemn these acts of violence. It is unacceptable that groups of private citizens decided to take justice into their own hands,\" the Head of the OSCE Office in Baku, Maurizio Pavesi said. Violent protests have erupted around the offices of the opposition National Front of Azerbaijan party over the past two days after the authorities announced the arrest of an opposition figure with alleged ties to Armenian secret police. Demonstrators on Monday exchanged volleys of stones and bottles, in which no one was injured, and bizarrely beat each other with flowers in another demonstration on Tuesday. Tensions flared after Ruslan Bashirli, leader of the Yeni Fikir (New Thought) youth opposition group, was arrested for allegedly accepting money from enemy Armenian agents to fund a revolution in Azerbaijan. The group shares an office with the National Front party. Anti-government parties have dismissed those allegations as part of a state-sponsored smear campaign meant to damage the opposition ahead of parliamentary elections in November. Pavesi called on the authorities to prevent \"violent and unauthorized public meetings,\" or risk the electoral campaign\'s \"deterioration.\" The last national vote, the 2003 presidential elections in which Ilham Aliyev took over from his father Heydar Aliyev, ended in two days of rioting and hundreds of arrests. (AFP)