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. | Tens of thousands of posters of 14 human rights activists who are in illegal detention were published in Southern Azerbaijan.
Regarding news received by BayBak, posters were handed to people in cities, schools and universities. There are many more prisoners but their pictures were not published because of their own and their families safety. |
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. | Explosions wounded the Polish ambassador, General Edward Pietrzyk, who was taken to a nearby hospital. Doctors there say he will survive.
Poland strongly supported the U.S-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, and has about 1,000 troops in the country. |
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. | Garry Kasparov’s nomination on September 30 as a presidential candidate ends months of speculation over who would represent the motley group of opposition parties known as Other Russia in next year’s election. Members of the unregistered coalition — which unites liberals, left-wing groups, and nationalists, including the provocative National Bolshevik leader Eduard Limonov — have little in common except for their disillusionment with politics in Russia today. |
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. | More than 3,000 workers are trapped deep underground in a South African gold mine, officials have said. A pipe broke, severing power cables to the lift and trapping workers at the bottom of a 2.2km (1.4 mile) shaft. Rescuers are planning to use an adjacent shaft to lift them out, a spokeswoman for the mine’s owner, Harmony Gold Mining, said. |