Armenia has done none of very basic things for Armenian hostages in  Azerbaijan - Jared Genser 

ArmInfo. Below is a X post by Jared Genser, the international lawyer defending Ruben Vardanyan. 

"I couldn't agree more with Armenia Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan  that he should make "proportionate" and "reasonable" efforts to free  my client Ruben Vardanyan and the other Armenian Christian political  prisoners & POWs detained by Azerbaijan. That is precisely why all  the items on this list come exclusively from examples of the kinds  and of things other governments have done over my 25 years of  experience working to recover foreign hostages. 

"Surely Armenian hostages deserve at least as much help as what other  governments provide, no? For example, when I represented two American  hostages in Iran sianamazi and his Dad, the U.S. had a State Account  for the Office of Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs  (SPEHA) SPEHA Envoy on Hostage working on the case, the White House &  State Department met regularly with the family of my clients,  including with the Secretary of State, the US had a US Interests  Section at the Swiss Embassy in Iran advocating for improved prison  conditions and trying to monitor the trials, the President and  SecState Affairs spoke out publicly, 

"US diplomats advocated at the un & with its allies asking for help,  the U.S. asked for support from global religious leaders, and the  U.S. imposed sanctions on Iranian officials responsible for the  hostage taking.  This was all reasonable and proportionate for the  United States. Yet to my surprise, as far as I can tell, Armenia has  done none of these kinds of very basic things for the Armenian  hostages in Azerbaijan. So I ask Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan - do  you agree doing these things are reasonable and proportionate or are  you really saying that the kinds of efforts President real Donald  Trump has been taking to recover American hostages like MarcFogel &  Amcits from Belarus and Venezuela have been unreasonable and  disproportionate?" 

The leadership of Artsakh was taken hostage following the Azerbaijani  aggression against the NKR on September 19-20, 2023. For the second  year in a row, in the face of inaction by the international  community, dozens of Armenian citizens are illegally held in  Azerbaijan, subjected to cruel and degrading treatment, torture.