Over the past two days police have arrested 26 members of the congregation of the Djuma mosque in Baku\'s old town. They include 10 women detained on their return home after attending prayers on 5 July. Police had entered the mosque during the evening of 4 July, arrested four people and forcibly evicted up to 300 more worshippers from the building. A clergyman appealed to the congregation on 6 July not to gather at the mosque for daily prayers until further notice. Police cleared the mosque of worshippers last week in compliance with a court ruling that the congregation occupied the building illegally. Azerbaijani human rights organizations issued a statement on 5 July condemning the eviction and arrests as illegal. (Turan)