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Safeguarding Impartiality: A Call to the UN
The International and Comparative Law Center, in cooperation with the Armenian Legal Center for Justice and Human Rights, has joined a coalition of Armenian and international human rights organizations in submitting a joint complaint-report to the United Nations. The submission calls for a review of potential conflicts of interest within the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention…
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“Ruben Vardanyan and the Other Prisoners Are in a New Prison”: What Is Known About Umbaki, Located in an Isolated Area
By Shoghik Galstyan | Azatutyun.am Former Artsakh State Minister Ruben Vardanyan has been transferred from the detention facility of Azerbaijan’s State Security Service to the Umbaki prison complex[1], which operates under the Azerbaijani Ministry of Justice. According to Siranush Sahakyan, the representative of Armenian prisoners before the European Court of Human Rights, the other Armenian…
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Is the Armenian Government Prepared to Organize Visits for the Relatives of Prisoners to Baku?
By Ruzanna Stepanyan | Azatutyun.am The son of one of the 19 Armenian prisoners held in Baku, Madat Babayan, says he is ready to travel to Baku to see his father, whom he has not seen for three years. “Whoever wants can organize it — we just want to go and see him,” he said.…
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Azerbaijan’s Defiance of International Court Rulings Cannot Last Long. Siranush Sahakyan
Siranush Sahakyan, Director of the “International and Comparative Law Center” and the the Armenian office of the “Armenian Legal Center for Justice and Human Rights”, in an interview with Sputnik Armenia addresses the recent decision of the European Court of Human Rights and its implications in the context of Armenia-Azerbaijan relations. On April 9, 2026, the European…
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Armenia ombudsperson says no mandate to visit Armenian detainees in Baku after Vardanyan appeal
By Siranush Adamyan Armenia’s Human Rights Defender Anahit Manasyan said her office has no mandate to organize visits to Armenian prisoners held in Azerbaijan, responding to a public appeal by former Nagorno-Karabakh official Ruben Vardanyan. The statement released on Wednesday came after Vardanyan, writing from detention in Baku through a message relayed to relatives, urged Manasyan to travel to…
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Statement by Ruben Vardanyan Addressed to the Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia, Anahit Manasyan
(Conveyed during a telephone conversation with family) Dear Ms. Manasyan, I am writing to you from detention, in connection with circumstances that, in my view, call for the active and sustained engagement of the institution you lead. I recently had a meeting with the Ombudsman of Azerbaijan, Sabina Aliyeva. During that meeting, I raised a…
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Armenian prisoners in Baku to appeal directly to ECHR
(Horizon Weekly / YEREVAN) – Armenian prisoners held in Azerbaijan are preparing to apply directly to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), arguing that domestic legal avenues in Azerbaijan do not provide effective recourse, according to attorney Siranush Sahakyan. Sahakyan — who represents Armenian prisoners of war and detainees before the Strasbourg-based court and…
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Ruben Vardanyan Remains Defiant In Face Of Azerbaijani Life Sentence
Ruben Vardanyan, a prominent Armenian businessman and former Nagorno-Karabakh premier, has issued another defiant statement from an Azerbaijani prison as he faced a life sentence at the end of his trial in Baku. According to Vardanyan’s family in Armenia, he read out the statement to his elder son, David, in a phone call on Wednesday,…
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Pashinyan seeks updates from U.S. on efforts to free Armenian captives in Azerbaijan
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Thursday that he recently asked a U.S. official visiting Yerevan to provide updates on the Trump Administration’s efforts to secure the release of Armenian captives held in Azerbaijan following the U.S. President’s pledge to do so. Pashinyan said at a press briefing that during his meeting with U.S. Under…
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Armenian prisoners are being tortured
The violence against Vicken Euljekjian led to disability “During phone conversations with the family members of Armenian captives, we continuously receive alarming information that our compatriots held in Baku prisons are being subjected to torture, and that prolonged deprivation of liberty has led to not only psychological but also serious physical consequences. Yesterday, Vicken Euljekjian’s…