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Moscow City Council reversed its decision concerning the protests, dedicated to the 21st anniversary of Aghdam events of 1992, which the Azerbaijani side calls “Khojali events”, the Azerbaijani APA information agency reports.

As one of the organizers of the protest, co-founder of the Azerbaijani-Jewish friendship society Pasha Alev, told the agency, as a reason to revoke the permission for rally was mentioned the “interference in the affairs of another country.”

Earlier it was reported that in the Russian capital a protest is planned to be held organized by the Azerbaijani-Jewish friendship society. Moscow City Hall initially gave permission to the organizers of the rally which was to be held on February 24 at the “Yauza Gate” square, which is located not far from the metro station “China Town” in Moscow.

On February 26, 1992, during the war in Karabakh, around 200 to 300 people (according to Human Right Watch, and 600 according to the version propagated by the Azerbaijani version) were killed under unascertained circumstances near the city of Ahgdam. They have been deliberately withheld by the Azerbaijani authorities in the midst of the military actions. Population of the village of Khojalu, which was a firing point shooting at the blockaded Stepanakert (among five others) was kept in the village for months by force and was not evacuated by the authorities of Azerbaijan deliberately, in order to use them as human shields later.