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Rashid Beglaryan during his trial. Image via news.az

Armenia

Baku court sentences Nagorno-Karabakh Armenian to 15 years imprisonment

by Arshaluys Barseghyan

•1 min read

An Azerbaijani court on Friday sentenced Nagorno-Karabakh Armenian Rashid Beglaryan to 15 years imprisonment, on charges including ‘committing genocide’. The charges against Beglaryan, 62, included ‘committing genocide and terrorism against Azerbaijanis in Khojaly’. According to Turan, the verdict noted that Beglaryan will serve the first five years of his sentence in a general regime prison and the remainder in a strict regime penitentiary. The charges against him also reportedly inclu

Armenia

Russia protests Armenian Bucha visit

by Arshaluys Barseghyan

•3 min read

Russia has sent a protest note to the Armenian Foreign Ministry regarding a visit by Armenian officials to Bucha. On Sunday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the visit was ‘an openly unfriendly step on the part of official Yerevan’. Details of the visit emerged on 31 May, when the Bucha City Council posted images on social media of Armenia’s Ambassador to Ukraine, Vladimir Karapetyan, and the head of Yerevan’s Nor Nork District, Tigran Ter-Margaryan meeting with the

Vagif Khachaturyan in court. Photo: Trend.az

Armenia

Azerbaijani court sentences Armenian man to 15 years for war crimes

by Ismi Aghayev

•1 min read

The Baku Military Court has sentenced Vagif Khachatryan, an ethnic Armenian from Nagorno-Karabakh, to 15 years in prison for war crimes committed during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. Khachatryan was accused of taking part in a massacre of Azerbaijani civilians in the village of Meshali, near Khojali, charges he denied. A 1992 report by the Russian human rights group, Memorial, cited ‘severe violence against the civilian population’ in Meshali by ethnic Armenian forces on 22 December 1991.

Armenia

Trial of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenian for war crimes continues in Baku

by Arshaluys Barseghyan

•4 min read

A Nagorno-Karabakh Armenian detained in July is on trial in Azerbaijan on charges of committing war crimes during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. Vagif Khachatryan, 68, was arrested in July as he was being evacuated to Armenia by the Red Cross for heart surgery. He is accused of taking part in a massacre of Azerbaijani civilians in the village of Meshali, in Khojali district, on 22 December 1991. [Read more: Azerbaijan arrests Nagorno-Karabakh resident for ‘war crimes’] A 1992 report by

Vagif Khachatrian being arrested at the Lachin checkpoint. Image via ITV.

Armenia

Azerbaijan arrests Nagorno-Karabakh resident for ‘war crimes’

by Ani Avetisyan

•4 min read

Azerbaijani border guards have arrested a 68-year-old resident of Nagorno-Karabakh as he was being evacuated to Armenia by the Red Cross for heart surgery, accusing him of genocide. Vagif Khachatryan, a resident of the village of Patara, was among 16 patients being evacuated by the Red Cross to Armenian hospitals for urgent treatment when he was arrested at the Lachin checkpoint on Saturday. The authorities in Stepanakert accused Baku of ‘kidnapping’ Khachatryan and taking him in an ‘unknow

A still from the video moments before the prisoners are executed.

Armenia

Azerbaijan ‘investigating’ new POW execution footage

by Ani Avetisyan

•3 min read

Azerbaijan has claimed it is investigating footage that appears to show a group of unarmed Armenian soldiers being summarily executed by Azerbaijani troops. Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of violence. The video, which appeared online on Sunday, shows at least six unarmed Armenian soldiers who had surrendered, being dragged with their hands raised into the centre of a group of Azerbaijani soldiers. At least three of the Azerbaijani soldiers, who are wearing uniforms simil

Armenia

Videos appear to show more war crimes in Nagorno-Karabakh

by OC Media

•2 min read

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Azerbaijan has stated that it is investigating videos which appear to show war crimes being committed by Azerbaijani soldiers against Armenian soldiers and civilians. The investigation comes as a large number of videos have begun to circulate online appearing to show Azerbaijani soldiers taunting, torturing, and executing captured men, as well as mutilating and otherwise degrading human remains. In a statement published on 21 November, the Prosecutor Gene