National Assembly. The demonstrators, who gathered on the first floor of the National Assembly, damaged number of the properties of the Parliament that worths 22,150 AZN in total. Police called on the demonstrators to leave the building and they were evicted from the parliament building. Despite that, some demonstrators started to throw stones at police officers, and injured seven police officers. In addition to that, the demonstrators turned over and damaged two cars owned by State Traffic Police Department, and damaged 14 more state-owned cars. In a screed delivered on 15 July, the day after the rally, President Aliyev targeted the largest opposition party, the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan. He declared that “we need to finish with the ‘fifth column‘" and the Popular Front is “worse than the Armenians.” Azerbaijani security services began arresting party members and others. According to Azerbaijani sources as many as 120 people are currently held in jail, including some deputy leaders of the party as well as journalists. On 20 July the U.S. State Department urged Azerbaijan to avoid using the pandemic to silence “civil society advocacy, opposition voices, or public discussion.” On 13 August the Amnesty International also urged to end the "violent persecution of opposition activists". These actions are widely seen as an attempt "to eliminate pro-democracy advocates and political rivals once and for all". Incidents International reactions Representatives of Cyprus and the United States condemned Azerbaijan, whereas representatives of Pakistan and Turkey as well as the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and the Turkic Council condemned Armenia. See also First Nagorno-Karabakh War 2014 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes 2016 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict List of conflicts between Azerbaijan and Armenia References Notes Citations External links Nagorno-Karabakh conflict Battles in 2020 2020 in Armenia 2020 in Azerbaijan 2020 in international relations Battles involving Armenia Battles involving Azerbaijan Armenia–Azerbaijan border July 2020 events in Asia 2020 in the Republic of Artsakh 2020 Armenian–Azerbaijani skirmishes Ilham Aliyev Nikol Pashinyan July 2020 events in Armenia