Prosecutor insists on life and 22-year terms for Azeri raiders

On Friday prosecutor Karen
Gabriyelyan said that Azeri raiders Dilham Askerov and Shahbaz Guliyev must be
sentenced to life and 22 years in jail, respectively.

Artsakhpress quotes Gabriyelyan as saying that the
Azeris illegally crossed Azerbaijan's border with Nagorno-Karabakh for spying:

"Smbat Tsakanyan was killed by one of them Dilham
Askerov, whose hatred of Armenians is proved by his words: when talking to
Guliyev about the killed boy, he said, 'Are you sorry for an Armenian?'"

According to Nagorno-Karabakh's Police, on 29 June
2014, Shahbaz Jalal oghli Guliyev, Dilham Gardashkhan oghli Askerov and Hasan
Hasanov illegally penetrated into the territory of NKR having with then arms
and ammunition and attempted a sabotage attack. They were spying and even
kidnapped minor Smbat Tsakanayn, a citizen of NKR on 4 July, who was later
found with deadly wounds to the head.  Afterwards,
on 11 July, on the Vardenis-Karvachar road, Hasanov murdered a resident of
Yerevan Sargis Abrahamyan (born in 1971) and wounded Karine Davtyan, a resident
of Dzoraghbyur village on the grounds of national hatred. He was killed showing
armed resistance to the Armenian forces. The other two raiders were
arrested.  Shahbaz Guliyev, 46, and
Dilham Askerov, 54, were charged under the NKR Criminal Code's Article 316
(spying), Article 350 part 2 (violation of the NKR's border by an organized
group), Article 245 part 3 (illegal carrying of arms and ammunition), Article
129 part 3 point 1 (kidnapping, actions against a minor with the use of arms),
Article 103 part 2 points 3,7,14 (murder combined with kidnapping by an
organized group out of ethnic hatred) and Articles 33 and 103 part 1 point 14
(attempted murder of two or more people by an organized group out of ethnic
hatred).