ArmInfo. Employees of International Committee of the Red Cross visited persons detained as a result of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in August this year, worker of information department of ICRC mission in Artsakh Eteri Musaelyan stated to ArmInfo's reporter.
In August, the ICRC visited again the detainees captured in relation to Nagorno-Karabagh conflict. We keep visiting people detained in relation to the conflict on a regular basis. According to its mandate, the ICRC visits detained individuals to monitor treatment and conditions of detention and help to ensure that the detainees are able to maintain contact with their families.
To recall, on 29 June 2014, Shahbaz Jalal oghli Guliyev, Dilham Gardashkhan oghli Askerov and Hasan Hasanov illegally penetrated into the territory of NKR having with then arms and ammunition and attempted a sabotage attack. They were spying and even kidnapped minor Smbat Tsakanayn, a citizen of NKR on 4 July, who was later found with deadly wounds to the head. Afterwards, on 11 July, on the Vardenis- Karvachar road, Hasanov murdered a resident of Yerevan Sargis Abrahamyan (born in 1971) and wounded Karine Davtyan, a resident of Dzoraghbyur village on the grounds of national hatred. He was killed showing armed resistance to the Armenian forces. The other two raiders were arrested. Shahbaz Guliyev, 46, and Dilham Askerov, 54, were charged under the NKR Criminal Code's Article 316 (spying), Article 350 part 2 (violation of the NKR's border by an organized group), Article 245 part 3 (illegal carrying of arms and ammunition), Article 129 part 3 point 1 (kidnapping, actions against a minor with the use of arms), Article 103 part 2 points 3,7,14 (murder combined with kidnapping by an organized group out of ethnic hatred) and Articles 33 and 103 part 1 point 14 (attempted murder of two or more people by an organized group out of ethnic hatred). On 29 Dec 2014, Dilham Askerov was sentenced to life imprisonment and Shahbaz Guliyev - to 22 years in jail. The Court of Appeal left the verdict unchanged.
ArmInfo. The International Committee of the Red Cross conducts a confidential dialogue with the two parties on access to the detained person. This was stated in the conversation with the correspondent of ArmInfo by the head of communication programs of the Yerevan delegation of the ICRC Zara Amatuni.
ArmInfo. Employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross visited the Azerbaijani saboteurs Dilgam Askerov and Shahbaz Guliyev, who are serving their sentences in Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as Elnur Huseynzade, who was captured near the village of Talish in Karabakh.
ArmInfo. International Red Cross Committee representatives recently visited Armenian prisoner of war Arsen Baghdasaryan
ArmInfo. The representatives of the ICRC Mission in Nagorno-Karabakh visited Azeri prisoner of war Elnur Huseinov.
ArmInfo. A new survey, published today, on how people around the world perceive a range of issues relating to war, indicates overwhelming support in the belief that wars should have limits. It also reveals deeply concerning views on torture and civilian casualties, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says in a statement sent to ArmInfo.