2024-07-22 12:47:08
In July, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) again visited persons of Armenian origin held in Azerbaijan.
Ilaha Huseynova, head of the public relations department of the ICRC representative office in Azerbaijan, told Day.Az about this on Monday.
According to the report, personal meetings were held with the detainees and conditions were created for them to communicate with their families.
It was stressed that, in accordance with its mandate, the ICRC assesses the treatment and conditions of detention of these persons. The ICRC also creates conditions for the restoration or continuation of contacts between these persons and their families. In accordance with ICRC procedures, observations and recommendations for visits are transmitted and discussed only with the detaining party.
It should be noted that a total of 15 members of the separatist regime have been brought to justice in the criminal case, the investigation of which is ongoing by a joint investigation team consisting of employees of the Prosecutor General’s Office and the State Security Service of Azerbaijan. In different years, the Prosecutor General’s Office initiated criminal cases against these individuals, and they were put on the international wanted list. Following the local anti-terrorist measures carried out in Karabakh last year, law enforcement agencies arrested and brought to Baku the former so-called “presidents” of the separatist regime Arkady Ghukasyan, Bako Sahakyan, Arayik Harutyunyan, the former so-called “foreign minister” David Babayan, as well as the former so-called “chairman of parliament” David Ishkhanyan, generals Levu Mnatsakanyan, David Manukyan and the former so-called “state minister” Ruben Vardanyan.