Police detained several dozen activists of the People's Front Party of Azerbaijan at an uncoordinated rally in Baku. The detainees in buses continued to chant slogans demanding the resignation of the authorities and freedom in the country.

Baku authorities refused to agree to the People's Front of Azerbaijan (PFAP) party's November 11 rally, demanding freedom of assembly, the release of political prisoners, free elections and democratic reforms. Opposition activists found the refusal to comply with the Constitution, stating that they would hold the rally. Police will not allow the oppositionists to hold the rally in Baku because the capital's authorities deemed it "inexpedient," said Zeyni Huseynov, head of the Azerbaijani Interior Ministry's press service. On the eve of the protest rally preventive detentions of opposition activists began.

An hour before the action started, all the passages to the Baku City Hall were blocked by reinforced police units. At about 4 p.m., groups of protesters appeared in the square in front of the Icheri Sheher metro station, chanting slogans like "Freedom!", "Resign!", "Freedom, Justice and National Government!", a correspondent of "Caucasian Knot" reported from the scene.

Police immediately began detaining the protesters and placing them in special buses with barred windows. The detainees continued to chant slogans on the buses. Already in the first minutes of the action dozens of activists were detained.

On September 30, police prevented a protest rally in Baku against the draft of a new law on political parties. About 60 people were detained before and during the rally. However, the Interior Ministry said that there were no detainees at the rally, the participants of the uncoordinated action were "removed from the territory. The People's Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) filed a notice of intent to hold a protest in front of the parliament on September 30 against the new law on political parties, but was refused, which it considered unlawful. The National Council of Democratic Forces condemned the police crackdown on the September 30 protest in Baku, accusing the Azerbaijani authorities of violating freedom of assembly and calling on the international community to put pressure on the authorities of the country.

Previously, protests against the country's closed land borders were also dispersed in Baku. In particular, participants of the uncoordinated rally in Baku on 20 July also demanded the opening of the country's land borders.

Despite the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic activity in Azerbaijan has been reduced to zero, the land borders remain closed, as the authorities do not want an influx of Azerbaijanis from Russia into the country, whose mass return could cause social cataclysms.