BAKU (Reuters) - Azeri police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters demanding a local leader's resignation on Thursday after cars and a hotel were torched in a night of rioting.
Mass protests are rare in the oil-producing former Soviet republic and the crowds' complaints about wages, unemployment and oppressive government may send a worrying signal to autocratic President Ilham Aliyev in an election year.
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