AZERBAIJAN SENTENCES KARABAKH ARMENIAN CAPTIVE TO 15 YEARS IN PRISON
Posted on August. 10. 2024
BAKU — An Azerbaijani court sentenced a resident of Nagorno-Karabakh to 15years in prison on Friday almost one year after he crossed into the Lachin districtand was arrested by Azerbaijani security forces.
The 62-year-old man, Rashid Beglaryan, was caught less than two monthsbefore the Azerbaijani military offensive that forced Karabakh’s population to flee to Armenia and allowed Baku to gain control of the region. Karabakh authoritiessaid in August 2023 that Beglaryan was kidnapped by Azerbaijaniservicemen as he walked towards Armenia through the Lachin corridor.
Azerbaijani authorities subsequently charged Beglaryan with committing warcrimes during the 1991-1994 Karabakh war. It is not clear whether he pleaded guilty to the accusations during his trial condemned by Armenian human rights groups and Karabakh’s leadership as a travesty of justice.
A military court in Baku sentenced another Karabakh Armenian man, VagifKhachatryan, to 15 years in prison on similar charges last November. He was detained at an Azerbaijani checkpoint in the Lachin corridor in July 2023 while being escorted by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to Armenia for urgent medical treatment.
During his trial, Khachatryan, 68, repeatedly denied killing and deportingKarabakh’s ethnic Azerbaijani residents at the start of the first Armenian-Azerbaijani war. The Armenian Foreign Ministry condemned the sham trial and demanded the immediate release of Khachatryan and other Armenian POWs and civilians still held hostage in Baku.
They include eight former political and military leaders of Karabakh whowere arrested during the mass exodus of the region’s Armenian population resulting from Azerbaijan’s September 2023 military offensive. They are facing various grave accusations rejected by the Armenian government as well as current Karabakh officials.
Karabagh & Nakhichevan was GIVEN AWAY ILLEGALLY BETWEEN BOLSHEVIK TRIO AND MUSTAFA
KEMAL WITHOUT INTERNATIONAL ACCEPTANCE; 1918
FREE ARMENIA INVADING 1920 NOVEMBER AFTER
SEVRES TREATY LIMITATION DECLARATION.
NOW, KARABAGH FORCEFUL EXPEL AFTER 9 MONTH STRICT BLOCKADE, LEGAL PROTEST 2023 DECEMBER IS RECOGNIZED BY HIGH COURT, IMPOSING SEVERAL
TERMS AND CONDITIONS, INCLUDING NAT.GAZ
BUYING. ARMENIA MUST INSIST **AT LEAST**
KARABAGH, NAKHICHEVAN AND ALL TURKEY GRANTED
FREE LANDS BACK TO BE ***VIABLE*** COUNTRY,
POSSIBILITY TO DISCUSS NORTH SOUTH AND EAST
WEST PASSAGES ***SOVEREIGN**** CONTROLLING.
HAVING POSSIBILITY TO HAVE STRONG ARMY OUT
OF ACTUAL RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED BY RUSSIA,
TO TURN FREE, INDEPENDENT, PROSPER COUNTRY!!