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Protesters Urge United Nations, Armenian Government to Facilitate Release of Baku Detainees
YEREVAN (Combined source) 17 January – Armenia’s government pointedly declined to react on Friday to the start of the trials in Azerbaijan of eight former leaders of the Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) Republic and eight other Karabakh Armenian prisoners which human rights activists in Yerevan condemned as a travesty of justice. All 16 defendants were captured by…
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ARF Western U.S. Central Committee Statement
The sham and sensationalized trial of Armenian political prisoners and hostages, who have been illegally held captive by Azerbaijan’s dictatorial regime for nearly 16 months and 500 days, began on Friday in a bootlegged military court in what can only be described as an indisputable violation of their basic human and civil rights. Azerbaijan has…
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The Sham Trial in Baku: A Betrayal of Justice and Humanity
Op-ed by Vartan Oskanian, Armenia’s former foreign minister (1998-2008) and coordinator of the Committee for the Defense of the Fundamental Rights of the People of Nagorno Karabakh, appointed by the National Assembly of the Republic of Artsakh on 2 December 2023 Today, Azerbaijan has once again demonstrated its disdain for justice, human rights, and international…
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Human rights defenders calling for international monitoring of trials of Armenian hostages in Baku
Over two dozen Armenian human rights NGOs and individual defenders have issued a joint appeal to international organizations and foreign ambassadors in Azerbaijan, urging them to monitor the trials of 16 Armenian detainees, which began behind closed doors in the Military Court of Baku, Azerbaijan on January 17. The next session of the hearing is…
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Football Star Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Billionaire Noubar Afeyan & Tennis Star Karen Khachanov Call For Release Of Ruben Vardanyan & All Armenian Prisoners in Baku, Urge Vigilance Ahead of Sham Trial in Azerbaijan
By ZARTONK MEDIA Armenian football star Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Canadian-Armenian billionaire Noubar Afeyan, and tennis star Karen Khachanov have taken to social media to share Ruben Vardanyan’s statement and make public appeals regarding his case. Mkhitaryan and Khachanov demanded the release of Vardanyan and all other detainees unlawfully incarcerated in Azerbaijan, tagging international human rights organizations…
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Artsakh parliament condemns sham trial of Armenian hostages in Baku
The Artsakh National Assembly has expressed deep concern and indignation over the upcoming sham trial of 16 Armenian hostages in Azerbaijan. “This is yet another attempt to undermine their fundamental rights and indicates Azerbaijan’s growing policy of Armenophobia,” they said in a joint statement on Thursday. “The so-called “trial,” conducted under inhumane conditions, is based…
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Diaspora groups request Azerbaijan allow international lawyers/observers to observe trials of Armenian prisoners
The Center for Truth and Justice (CFTJ) has requested the government of Azerbaijan allow a team of distinguished international lawyers to travel to Baku to attend and monitor the upcoming trials of Armenian prisoners, set to begin on January 17, 2025. “These prisoners have been illegally held in pretrial detention with fabricated accusations, without access…
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“Azerbaijan’s President Aliyev is using a Stalin tactic, show trials to eliminate his enemies”
Luis Moreno Ocampo: “Azerbaijan’s bogus charges are a cover-up of the crimes committed against the Nagorno-Karabakh people including the prisoners. Their incarceration is a message to 120.000 Armenians not to return to their ancestral land in Nagorno-Karabakh.” Azerbaijan’s President Aliyev uses a Stalin tactic to show trials to eliminate his enemies. During the 1930´Stalin tortured,…
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Upcoming Trials of Sixteen Armenian Hostages in Baku
Trial Date Set for Armenian Hostages Held in Baku As the victims of the 1990 January 13 state-sponsored pogroms[1] in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, are being commemorated, a news item in an Azerbaijani outlet reports that the trial of fifteen Armenian hostages[2] —POWs and political prisoners— held in Baku is scheduled for 17 January…
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The Armenian hostages —POWs, civilians and political prisoners— still illegally detained by Azerbaijan
During its genocidal attacks on the Armenians of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) in 2020 and 2023, Azerbaijan abducted many Armenian soldiers, civilians, and political leaders. Azerbaijan is currently confirmed to be holding at least 23 Armenian hostages. The true figure may be as high as 100. Read here for more info. Of the twenty-three, seven have…