{"id":1938,"date":"2026-08-01T14:13:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/?p=1938"},"modified":"2026-08-03T14:21:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:21:45","slug":"another-stage-of-armenian-prisoners-sham-trial-concludes-in-baku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/?p=1938","title":{"rendered":"Another stage of Armenian prisoners&#8217; sham trial concludes in Baku"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another stage of a sham trial against Armenian prisoners unlawfully held in Azerbaijan concluded on Friday at the Baku Court of Appeals, where the court examined the prisoners&#8217; appeals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Azerbaijani media reports, each Armenian prisoner of war was provided with an interpreter and legal counsel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the beginning of the hearing, the court announced that a representative of the Azerbaijani Human Rights Commissioner&#8217;s Office was also attending the proceedings as an observer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Presenting their arguments before the court, the Armenian prisoners stated that they do not plead guilty to the charges brought against them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Judge Rahimov declared the appellate proceedings closed&nbsp;and retired to the deliberation room to issue what is expected to be yet another unlawful ruling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.panorama.am\/en\/news\/2026\/08\/01\/prisoner-sham-trial\/3165490\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PANORAMA.am<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another stage of a sham trial against Armenian prisoners unlawfully held in Azerbaijan concluded on Friday at the Baku Court of Appeals, where the court examined the prisoners&#8217; appeals. According to Azerbaijani media reports, each Armenian prisoner of war was provided with an interpreter and legal counsel. At the beginning of the hearing, the court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12,5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy","category-english","category-news","category-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938","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=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1942,"href":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions\/1942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freearmenianhostages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}