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  Updated: May 30, 2007

Azerbaijan annul ban on mosque loudspeakers

By: Sheikh M Khurasani

BAKU, Azerbaijan: Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev has reversed a controversial ban on mosques from using loudspeakers for the Adhan (call to prayer) that had sparked widespread outrage.

"At a meeting today between the president and the Caucasus Muslim Administration, the decision to forbid the use of loudspeakers for the call to prayer was canceled," Ali Hasanov, a senior aide to Aliyev, said Tuesday.

The Caucasus Muslim Administration, which manages Muslim affairs on behalf of the government, imposed the nationwide ban last week, saying that loud calls to prayer were disturbing residents.

The decision caused an outcry among many Azerbaijanis and human-rights groups, who decried the ban as a violation of religious freedoms.


 
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