Issue of Azerbaijanis held hostage by Armenia is on agenda - Ombudsperson

  09 December 2016    Read: 1136
Issue of Azerbaijanis held hostage by Armenia is on agenda - Ombudsperson
The issue of Azerbaijanis – Dilgam Asgarov and Shahbaz Guliyev, who were taken hostage by Armenians in occupied Kalbajar district of Azerbaijan, is on the agenda, Azerbaijan`s Human Rights Commissioner Elmira Suleymanova (Ombudsperson) told reporters on Friday.
“I have had meetings and discussions with the ICRC head about Dilgam Asgarov and Shahbaz Guliyev, both of whom are in Armenian hostage. They affirmed that their imprisonment by an illegal court runs contrary to international law,” she said.

Suleymanova noted that the ICRC has given a written response to her requests in this regard.

“The letter of response said they cannot intervene in the legal aspects of this issue and that it is left to the two states to negotiate this problem and give permission for them to meet their families,” she said, adding. “We constantly bring this problem up. The ICRC meets them regularly, giving their letters to their families. The state and we ourselves try to solve this problem.”

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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