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Armenian Security Chief: Efforts Ongoing to Secure Return of POWs
PanARMENIAN.Net – Director of Armenia’s National Security Service, Armen Abazyan, said efforts are continuing to secure the return of Armenian prisoners of war (POWs) held in Azerbaijan. “I can’t say whether we’ll have results tomorrow or in a month, but rest assured—work is in progress,” Abazyan told reporters, according to RFE/RL. He welcomed a recent…
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“There can be no peace when an act of genocide has been committed against Artsakh and Armenians are being sentenced in Baku through fabricated charges,” said Jonathan Spangenberg
This is what Jonathan Spangenberg, the chairman of the Central Council of Armenians in Germany, said in a conversation with Aravot. Jonathan Spangenberg is actively involved in the defense and release of Armenian prisoners. He says he is also working on this issue with Germany’s political sphere. “But it is very important that this becomes…
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Neutral Country Could Help Secure Access to Armenian Detainees, Lawyer Says
PanARMENIAN.Net — Armenia should formally request Switzerland’s assistance in securing access to Armenian detainees held in Azerbaijan, human rights lawyer Siranush Sahakyan said, suggesting that a neutral intermediary could help bridge the current diplomatic impasse. Sahakyan, head of the Center for International and Comparative Law, noted that Armenia has viable alternatives for arranging visits to…
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During Ruben Vardanyan’s judicial farce, two of his rquests were denied
As the sole source of developments at the “open court sessions” at the Baku Military Court, where the “trials” of sixteen Armenian hostages are being conducted, AZERTAC, the Aerbaijan state news agency, reports that on 3 June 2025, “At the beginning of the session, Ruben Vardanyan requested that a copy of the indictment in his…
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Every individual unlawfully detained in Baku’s prisons must be released without delay. Alvina Gyulumyan
Former Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia, former Representative-Judge of Armenia at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), and the first President of the Union of Judges of Armenia, Alvina Gyulumyan, reports: Today, as the Oslo Freedom Forum convenes, bringing together leading human rights advocates to “imagine” a better future,…
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Armenian Deputy FM: Release of Armenian POWs on our list of priorities, we are not satisfied with results
“We do not have a final response that we can announce. Still, today, you also saw that the prime minister further opened up and presented certain new details regarding the proposals of the Armenian side. I believe that in the context of the discussions of the general peace process, this topic shall also be on…
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Statement by Human Rights Lawyer Siranush Sahakyan on the Indictment Against Ruben Vardanyan
Yerevan, May 23, 2025 – I, Siranush Sahakyan, human rights lawyer and representative of Ruben Vardanyan’s family, and a member of his international legal team, declare that upon reviewing a portion of the indictment in Ruben Vardanyan’s case (spanning more than 200 pages), it is evident that the charges against him are politically motivated, legally…
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Wife Fears For Life Of Armenian Prisoner In Azerbaijan
The wife of Viken Euljekian, one of at least 23 Armenian prisoners held in Azerbaijan, said on Friday that she fears for his life following a hunger strike reported by him recently. Euljekian, 45, is a native of Lebanon who had moved to Nagorno-Karabakh and worked there as a taxi driver years before the 2020…
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BREAKING: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio Says U.S. Is Working to Prevent Azerbaijani Invasion of Armenia, Calls Armenian Prisoners of War Release “Critical”
During a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on May 21, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that preventing a renewed conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan—specifically an Azerbaijani invasion of Armenia—is a key foreign policy focus of the Trump-Vance Administration. Rubio was questioned by Representatives Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Jim Costa (D-CA), who pressed him…
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Armenian hostage goes on hunger strike in Azerbaijani jail
Vicken Euljekjian, an Armenian civilian illegally detained in Azerbaijan since 2020, has staged a hunger strike in prison in Baku, after being denied the right to call his wife. It is the second time he has resorted to a hunger strike over the conditions of his imprisonment. The wife of Armenian detainee in Azerbaijan, Vicken…