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• Onnik Krikorian

  Still waiting to hear news of Ali, but at least one blogger and most others have been released. Updates so far are below:

  3 people (arjen, rashad s and nigar f) released at pol station 22; others still inside; mood is light outside of station

  http://twitter.com/bartlemot/statuses/1753891469

  Two dalga girls just released from station 22, about 10 left; in station 39 just 1 person left

  http://twitter.com/bartlemot/statuses/1754147193

  Everybody’s out at station 22 – battery down, twexit!

  http://twitter.com/bartlemot/statuses/1754194335

  10 May 2009, 3:36 pm

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• Onnik Krikorian

  RFE/RL reports that 50 people in total were detained, but they have all since been released:

  http://www.rferl.org/content/Baku_Police_Detain_50_Protesters_During_Flower_Festival/1625163.html

  Hoping that news is correct.

  10 May 2009, 5:07 pm

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• Onnik Krikorian

  Ok, it’s been confirmed. Everybody is thankfully free

  10 May 2009, 6:51 pm

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• Pingback: Azerbaijani Bloggers Arrested, Released : Committee to Protect Bloggers

  […] GVO reports that several Ajeri bloggers were arrested, then later released. Frontline Club blogger and Global Voices Online author Ali S. Novruzov has reportedly been detained in Baku as the Azerbaijani capital prepared for a planned youth demonstration. Tweets from a reliable source report that at least one other blogger was also detained along with the head of the National Democratic Institute in Azerbaijan, but that they were simply walking on the streets. […]

  11 May 2009, 2:39 am
• Onnik Krikorian

  Incidentally, three bloggers — Nigar (first) of http://stop-it-please.livejournal.com, Arzu (second) of http://flyingcarpetsandbrokenpipelines.blogspot.com and Ali himself (last) of GV, Frontline and http://blog.novruzov.az — are interviewed about yesterday’s events (in Azeri):

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsLxR4T1ErY

  11 May 2009, 9:55 am

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• Pingback: Global Voices Online » Azerbaijan: Bloggers speak about Baku youth protest, detentions

  […] Voices Online and Global Voices Advocacy were quick to respond and spread the word while the Committee to Protect Bloggers also followed up […]

  15 May 2009, 8:35 am
• Pingback: Global Voices in Italiano » Azerbaigian: cyber-attivisti in azione a Baku

  […] Voices Online[it] e Global Voices Advocacy[in] sono stati rapidi a rispondere e diffondere la voce, mentre anche il Comitato per la protezione […]

  21 May 2009, 5:39 am