The International Committee of the Red Cross responded to the question on the Azerbaijanis, taken hostages by the Armenians in Kalbajar.
The ICRC is aware of the upcoming trial of the Azerbaijanis, who are being kept in Nagorno Karabakh, spokesperson for the ICRC Baku Office Ilaha Huseynova told.
“The International Committee of the Red Cross regularly visits these people and help them communicating with their families. According to the Geneva Convention, a part of international humanitarian law, the detainees should be treated humanely. International humanitarian law doesn’t prevent defendants from standing trial. International humanitarian law always requires the observance of legal safeguards regarding the `trial`,” she said.
Huseynova also said the ICRC isn’t a source of information about judicial proceedings.
Note that, in July of this year, 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.
Dilgam Asgarov and Shahbaz Guliyev will appear before the court in Khankendi on October 27.
ICRC comments on Armenia
22 October 2014
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