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Summary Man jailed for two years for launching democracy protests through facebook.
United States-educated Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, 29, was jailed for two years for organising pro-democracy protests in ex-Soviet Azerbaijan through social networking website, Facebook.Bakhtiyar was arrested after he was listed among the creators of a Facebook page discussing a peoples revolution in Azerbaijan. Hajiyevs arrest caused rights group Amnesty International to accuse the Azerbaijani authorities of using harassment and intimidation against government opponents. Another young activist was also jailed for two and half years this month on drugs charges after using Facebook to call for an uprising like those in the Arab world. Opposition party activist Jabbar Savalan, 20, was arrested for alleged opium possession after he posted a message on the social networking website about a day of rage -- a reference to mass protests in the Middle East.
