Young Azeri Protesters Take To Streets

Small groups of Azeri youths staged antigovernment protests in the capital, Baku, despite a police crackdown on protest organizers in recent days. Inspired by popular uprisings in Arab nations, young Azerbaijani activists had campaigned via Facebook to designate March 11 as the "Great People's Day" and stage protests against the country's autocratic leader Ilham Aliyev.