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"Azadlig" correspondent Fikret Huseynli was attacked

06 March 2006 [18:30] - TODAY.AZ
Assailants abducted and severely beat up a reporter who works for an Azerbaijani opposition newspaper.

A spokesman for the opposition People's Front of Azerbaijan, Isak Avazoglu, said Fikret Huseynli, a reporter with the "Azadliq" newspaper, was seized on March 5 by three men who threw him into the trunk of a car, drove him to a dark alley, and assaulted him.

The attackers left Huseynli after he lost consciousness, and passers-by took him to a hospital, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reported.

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