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.