Baku police suppressed a rally of the activists of the oppositional Musavat party and Union for Democracy political bloc.

The protestors demanded freedom of assembly, democratic parliamentary elections scheduled for November, release of political prisoners and corruption control, Caucasian Knot reports.

An hour before the demonstration, police surrounded the park where the protest action was to take place and detained several groups of oppositionists chanting “Freedom” and “Musavat” slogans. 

Earlier, Azerbaijani police scattered a demonstration of the Azadlig bloc. The protestors received administrative punishment.