ICRC representatives visited Armenians in Azeri captivity

ArmInfo.Representatives of the Baku office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) visited the Armenians, who are in Azerbaijani captivity.

As Ilham Huseynov, the head of the public relations department of the  ICRC in Baku, told the Azerbaijani media, the visits were carried out  during February: "During the visit, the conditions of their detention  and treatment were monitored.

She added that representatives of the ICRC also visited Azerbaijanis  on the Armenian side.

The present time in Karabakh there are three Azeri saboteurs, Dilgam  Askerov and Shahbaz Guliyev, serving sentences in Artsakh, as well as  Elnur Huseynzade, who was captured near the Karabakh village of  Talish on February 1, 2017, on suspicion of attempting sabotage and  illegal crossing of the state border NKR.

Azeri 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.

In Azerbaijan, two Armenians are detained - a prisoner of war, Arsen  Baghdasaryan, convicted by the Baku court for 15 years of  imprisonment and a shepherd Zaven Karapetyan, who was captured this  summer.