Epress.am News from Armenia
Tension was rising in Azerbaijan since this morning. Activists began a campaign on Facebook to hold nationwide anti-government protests on March 11, which they’re calling “Great People’s Day.”
The event has since spread to other media, although specifics are somewhat vague, which seems to be a deliberate tactic, reports the Foreign Policy Blogs Network. People are being urged to stage symbolic or actual protests “in a civil way without provocations” in villages and cities across the country. Twitter updates for the event can be found at #11mart.
Since Mar. 4, activists have been detained by police, and since this morning, police forces have been centralizing in different areas in Baku.
As mentioned on blogs and social networking sites such as Twitter, activists are attempting to gather in downtown Baku, but police have been preventing their activities. A few tweeps have noted that police have been detaining anyone who approaches the May 28 metro station.
Some tweets below of the names of people detained in Azerbaijan thus far (with some corrections along the way):
