ArmInfo.Stepanakert confirmed the transfer of the Azerbaijani saboteur, who is serving his sentence in Artsakh Shahbaz Guliyev for treatment in the Yerevan hospital.
As the press secretary of the head of Artsakh David Babayan stated in an interview with ArmInfo correspondent, this is an established practice. "When we have the opportunity to provide the convict with better quality care, as in this case - we do it, regardless of the nationality of the prisoner. Unlike other authoritarian, fascist regimes, where Armenians are subjected to violence and persecution because of their nationality. Guliyev's life does not threaten anything, he receives a full-time treatment," Babayan said. He noted that the Azerbaijani saboteur is in the Yerevan hospital for a while, and will stay there according to the doctors' appointment.
Earlier, Azeri media reported referring to his relatives about Guliyev's transfer to Yerevan.
To remind, Azerbaijani citizens Shahbaz Guliyev (born in 1968), Dilgam Askerov (born in 1960), and the liquidated third participant of the group Hasan Hasanov, carrying weapons and ammunition, illegally crossed the state border of the NKR on June 29, penetrated into the territory of the Shahumyan district of the republic with the purpose of carrying out reconnaissance activities. These individuals on a special mission collected information and carried out espionage activities. Moreover, they, with the use of weapons, kidnapped a minor citizen of NKR Smbat Tsakanian on July 4, whose body was found on July 15 with gunshot wounds in the forest belt of Karvachar and Manashid communities of Shahumyan district. In addition, Gasanov killed a resident of Yerevan Sarkis Abrahamyan (born in 1971) on the 32nd kilometer of the Vardenis-Karvachar highway on the grounds of national hatred on the evening of July 11, and Karine Davtyan, a resident of Dzorahbury village of Kotayk province, caused gunshot wounds. He provided armed resistance during the operation to detain him and was neutralized. At a meeting on December 29, 2014, Dilgam Askerov was sentenced to life imprisonment. Shahbaz Guliyev was sentenced to 22 years in prison. The Court of Appeal left the verdict unchanged.