Monday, January 22 2024 11:24

ArmInfo. Russian-Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin reacted to footage posted by the  Azerbaijani side about the conditions of detention of the military-political leadership of Artsakh, captured in September last year, after another act of aggression against the Armenians.

"I never cease to be amazed at the fantastic infantilism and naivety  of many Armenians. Residents of Armenia absolutely do not understand  what Azerbaijan is and who the Azerbaijanis are and what the Aliyev  regime is. In recent days, Azerbaijanis have circulated photographs  of "happy" Armenian prisoners, including Arayik Harutyunyan, David  Babayan and others, allegedly reading books in the library, watching  TV and even having radiators in the cell (pictured with Arayik).  After which many Armenians comment like this: "Everything is fine  with them, they are happy with everything, they are like at a  resort!" and these idiotic comments collect dozens of likes from  other naive fools, who was quoted on Twitter (X) by the French  Ambassador to Armenia.

"People, you don't understand that these are staged photographs. I  was kept in the Kurdakhany prison in Baku and taken to the library to  be photographed for the Aliyev media. The Azerbaijanis gave me a  book.  They told him to smile, otherwise he would be deprived of  walks in the prison yard. Then they took the book from me and  returned it to a dirty and smelly cell, where they kept me for the  entire seven months.

The cells in reality are much worse; they were taken to the medical  building for a photo shoot. There are several elite cells in the  medical building, which look exactly like in the photo. There is no  heating in ordinary cells, prisoners freeze in winter, sleep under  torn Soviet blankets, wearing all the clothes they have. There are no  televisions there either, but they took me to a cell in the medical  building where there were televisions for photographs.

When I read the nonsense that Armenians write about the "happy" faces  of Armenian prisoners, I am simply sick of such Armenians. Regardless  of the identity of these people in the photo (many should be tried  for treason and bribery), they are really in trouble. Azerbaijan  today is no different from the Taliban or ISIS. Absolutely illegal  and gangster regime of Aliyev. These prisoners are seriously  threatened with torture and death in a Baku prison.

Let me remind you that in this same prison the Azerbaijanis, shouting  "Allahu Akbar," beat me half to death, broke my arm, fingers, three  ribs, jaw and knocked out my front teeth. This happened about three  months after they took a photo of me "happy" with a book in my hands.  By its decision dated May 20, 2021, the European Court found  Azerbaijan guilty of illegal arrest, cruel torture and attempted  murder," Lapshin wrote.

It should be noted that the former commander of the Artsakh Defense  Army Levon Mnatsakanyan appeared in the footage for the first time.  You can see from the photo that he is not being treated well. In  addition, there was no photo of General David Manukyan, Speaker of  Parliament David Ishkhanyan and philanthropist Ruben Vardanyan. And  the photo of the former head of the Artsakh Foreign Ministry was  completely old.

Let us note that the exact number of Armenian prisoners of war and  hostages held in Azerbaijani prisons is still not known. Among those  held in Azerbaijani captivity are 8 former and current  representatives of the military-political leadership of Artsakh.  These are former Presidents of Artsakh Arkady Ghukasyan, Bako  Sahakyan, Arayik Harutyunyan, former Minister of Foreign Affairs  David Babayan, as well as Speaker of Parliament David Ishkhanyan,  ex-commander of the Artsakh Defense Army, General Levon Mnatsakanyan,  General David Manukyan and ex-Minister of State Ruben Vardanyan.