{"id":1717,"date":"2026-05-07T00:08:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2026-05-11T00:14:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T00:14:30","slug":"we-are-ready-to-go-to-baku-davit-ishkhanyans-son-gives-exclusive-interview-to-abc-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/?p=1717","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe Are Ready to Go to Baku\u201d: Davit Ishkhanyan\u2019s Son Gives Exclusive Interview to ABC Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The families of Davit Ishkhanyan and the other Armenian prisoners held in Baku are prepared to travel to Baku to visit their relatives, Davit Ishkhanyan\u2019s son, Armen Ishkhanyan, said in an exclusive interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/glxavor-noruthyunner\/260604\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ABC Media<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNot only has Ruben Vardanyan\u2019s family expressed readiness, but we \u2014 all the families of the prisoners \u2014 have expressed our readiness to go. We are currently discussing this issue with the relevant bodies,\u201d Armen Ishkhanyan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ishkhanyan family last spoke with Davit Ishkhanyan on May 6. Asked about the impact of the absence of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Azerbaijan on the families and their imprisoned relatives, Armen Ishkhanyan said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBecause of the absence of the International Committee of the Red Cross, we are unable to send food and hygiene supplies, and we also have no information about the detention conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Davit Ishkhanyan\u2019s son, during his father\u2019s captivity, the family met with Armenia\u2019s Human Rights Defender only once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDuring these two and a half years, we met with the Human Rights Defender only once, and that was on our own initiative. We raised several issues, to which she promised to provide answers, but to this day, there have been no answers. Anahit Manasyan said that she is in contact with her Azerbaijani counterpart and would try to help us on certain issues,\u201d Armen Ishkhanyan concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It should be recalled that on May 6, Davit Ishkhanyan sent an audio message from a prison in Baku. He addressed Armenia\u2019s Human Rights Defender and the Armenian people. Today, Ruben Vardanyan also issued a message from a prison in Baku, speaking about inhumane prison conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The families of Davit Ishkhanyan and the other Armenian prisoners held in Baku are prepared to travel to Baku to visit their relatives, Davit Ishkhanyan\u2019s son, Armen Ishkhanyan, said in an exclusive interview with ABC Media. \u201cNot only has Ruben Vardanyan\u2019s family expressed readiness, but we \u2014 all the families of the prisoners \u2014 have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy","category-english","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1719,"href":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions\/1719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}