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| Azerbaijan Jails 8 Muslim Activists over pro-Hijab Protest |
| 2013-04-23 |
[An Nahar] A Baku court incarceratedYouse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! on Monday eight Mohammedan activists jugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! last year after they clashed with police in a protest against a ban on the Islamic hijab for schoolgirls. The activists were sentenced for five to six years in prison "for resisting and using violence against police, and disrupting public order", the court said in a statement. The eight men were among 40 protesters arrested last October in the mainly Shiite Mohammedan country's capital, Baku, in violent festivities with police. The Mohammedan headscarf is prohibited under rules that define what kind of uniforms pupils must wear in Azerbaijan, where the authorities have been seeking to prevent the rise of radical Islam. |
| Posted by:Fred |