AzVision.az contacted with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to get further information on the claims made by Sahib Musayev, Dilgam Askerov`s brother who was taken hostage by Armenians in the occupied Kalbajar district of Azerbaijan.

`I am in doubt about my brother`s letters. Someone else might write the letters which were sent via the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)`, he said.

` His latest two letters were written in Russian. The ICRC states that the representatives of the ICRC both in Baku and `so-called` Nagorno-Karabakh do not speak in Azerbaijani. What is the point? In which language does Dilgam write letters? Previously, he wrote letters in Azerbaijani but then his letters were written in Russian. Some parts of his letters have been removed recently. He was not allowed to write everything`, Sahib Musayev added.

`The process of taking letters from the hostages and delivering to the families is being held in accordance with the relevant laws of the ICRC`, Ilaha Huseynova, head of the PR department of the ICRC Baku office told AzVision.az.

In July of 2014, Russian citizen Dilgam Asgarov and Azerbaijani citizen Shahbaz Guliyev were taken hostage and another Azerbaijani citizen Hasan Hasanov was shot to death by the Armenian servicemen while trying to visit their homeland in Kalbajar. Hasan Hasanov’s body was taken from the enemy and buried in Baku. On December 19, 2014, the “court” of the separatist regime in occupied Nagorno-Karabakh sentenced Dilgam Asgarov to life in prison, Shahbaz Guliyev to 22 years in prison.

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