All peaceful demonstrations demanding cultural rights, protesting socio-economic injustice, as well as calling for the protection of the environment, have been violently suppressed. Scores of people have been arrested. According to Amnesty International «those who seek to promote Azerbaijani cultural identity and linguistic rights are often charged with vaguely-worded offences such as «acting against state security by promoting pan-Turkism,». Detainees are subjected to psychological and physical torture, which often yield false confessions.
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