Armenia handed over two detained Azerbaijani servicemen to Azerbaijan

ArmInfo. Armenia handed over to Azerbaijan two detained Azerbaijani servicemen.

"On December 18, at one of the defensive areas of the N military unit  of the RA Ministry of Defense, Armenian servicemen detained two  border violators, who are servicemen of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces.   On December 20, for humanitarian reasons and with the mediation of  the Russian Federation, these servicemen were returned to the  Azerbaijani side," the message of Ministry of Defense of Armenia  says.

It should be reminded that earlier ArmInfo wrote about the capture of  two Azerbaijani soldiers by the Armenian side, one of whom is in the  rank of captain. It is also worth noting that before the transfer of  the Azerbaijani servicamen to Baku, the defense departments of the  Republic of Armenia and Azerbaijan remained silent about the videos  and frames of the detention of the Azerbaijani military circulated in  the media.  It is noteworthy that the Armenian side uses the term  "border violators" in this case, while the Azerbaijani side in  similar situations is more inclined to call the Armenian military  "terrorists", "occupiers". Moreover, the Azerbaijani side mocks and  tortures the captured Armenian soldiers then post pictures of torture  and ill- treatment on the World Wide Web. We also remind that  according to human rights activists, Azerbaijan confirms the presence  of more than 50 Armenian prisoners of war, but has refused to return  them for more than a year, even for humanitarian reasons, and for the  same reasons, most of them were sentenced to long terms on trumped-up  charges. Experts are also inclined to believe that several hundred  Armenian prisoners of war and hostages are in Azerbaijani captivity.