January 17, 2005 - 18:56 AMT
NETHERLANDS WELCOMED TALISH LEADER
Several days ago, Netherlands. Leader of the Talish movement Alakram Gummatov, who was released from an Azeri jail and deprived of the Azerbaijani citizenship last September, was present at the demonstration of the film dedicated to the missing soldiers of the Karabakh war, Tolishpress news agency reports. When the members of the presidium learned that the leader of the Talish National Movement is in the demonstration hall, they invited him to the stage and introduced him as unbending fighter for the restoration of rights of the Talish people", coordinator of the Talish National Movement in Europe E. Alizoda says. Earlier, a month after his release, Gummatov gave an interview to the above mentioned agency and said that he was subjected to cruel tortures, offenses and humiliations, which were more like the tortures applied to the prisoners of a concentration camp rather that procedures in one of the states, which is aspired to become a member of the modern world". "Today I am ready to continue the political struggle with more enthusiasm", he stated.