April 30, 2002 - 23:31 AMT
TALISH PEOPLE NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENT LEADER CONTINUES HUNGER-STRIKE IN AZERI PRISON
The state of health of the leader of the national liberation movement of Talish people Alikram Gummatov, who has gone hunger strike since April 23, has worsened. It should be reminded that the head of self-declared Talish-Mugan Republic was arrested according to faked case and sentenced to life imprisonment. Gummatov is one of eleven political prisoners and their release is demanded from Baku by the Council of Europe.