AZERBAIJANI OFFICIAL ARRESTED FOR TIES TO ACCUSED TRAITORS.

Arif Mansurov, head of Azerbaijan’s State Committee for Ecology and Control of Natural Resources, has been dismissed and arrested. He is accused of having aided the escape from pre-trial detention of three Popular Front-era military commanders and the leader of the abortive Talysh-Mugan republic, all charged with high treason. The group fled to Russia, but one of them, former defense minister Rahim Gaziev, has been extradited by the Russian authorities. (Turan, Interfax, Itar-Tass, January 21)

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