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Relatives of Nagorno-Karabakh resident, abducted by Azerbaijan, harassed by Azerbaijanis in social networks
... humanitarian law. The next day after the abduction Armenia filed an application with the ECHR to protect Vagif Khachatryan's rights, demanding interim measures against Azerbaijan. In a subsequent decision, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has set a deadline for Azerbaijan until August 8 to provide information about Vagif Khachatryan.-0-
08/02/2023ECHR sets deadline for Azerbaijan to provide information about abducted Nagorno-Karabakh resident Vagif Khachatryan
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has set a deadline for Azerbaijan until August 8 to provide information about Vagif Khachatryan, a 68-year-old resident of Nagorno-Karabakh abducted on Saturday by Azerbaijani military from the checkpoint in Lachin corridor, the office of Armenia's representative on international legal issues said in a Facebook post. YEREVAN,...
08/01/2023Vagif Khachatryan’s 15-year prison sentence handed down by Azerbaijani court amounts to a death penalty, says Lemkin Institute
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention condemned the 15-year prison sentence handed down to Vagif Khachatryan on 7 November 2023 by Azerbaijan. YEREVAN, November 14. /ARKA/. The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention condemned the 15-year prison sentence handed down to Vagif Khachatryan on 7 November 2023 by Azerbaijan. A resident of ...
11/14/2023ECHR rejects Armenia's application for a new interim measure against Azerbaijan in Vagif Khachaturyan case
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has rejected Armenia's application for a new interim measure against Azerbaijan in the case of Vagif Khachatryan, Armenia’s representative on international legal affairs said in a Facebook post. YEREVAN, August 30. /ARKA/. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has rejected Armenia's application for a new interim measure against Azerbaijan ...
08/30/2023Azerbaijanis threatened ICRC employee and daughter of abducted 68-year-old Nagorno-Karabakh resident – Tatoyan Center
Armenia’s ex-human rights defender Arman Tatoyan, who is now head of Tatoyan Law and Justice Center, met with Vera, the daughter of 68-year-old Nagorno-Karabakh resident Vagif Khachatryan, who was abducted by Azerbaijan last week, when being transported from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia for medical treatment by the International Committee of Red Cross. Tatoyan spoke also with the other daughter of Khachatryan, Inga, who ...
07/31/2023Armenian Foreign Ministry outraged by Azerbaijan's sham "trial" of kidnapped Artsakh resident Vagif Khachatryan
The Armenian Foreign Ministry is outraged by the fake "trial" in Azerbaijan of an abducted resident of Nagorno-Karabakh Vagif Khachatryan and the demonstration of his photo from the court room. YEREVAN, October 13. /ARKA/. The Armenian Foreign Ministry is outraged by the fake "trial" in Azerbaijan of an abducted resident of Nagorno-Karabakh Vagif Khachatryan ...
10/13/2023Azerbaijan releases fake documents to justify abduction of 68-year-old resident of Nagorno-Karabakh- Armenian MP
Azerbaijani government agencies are publishing fake documents and find fake persons who claim that Vagif Khachatryan, a Nagorno-Karabakh citizen, abducted last week by Azerbaijani military, committed war crimes during the first Karabakh war in 1990s, said the secretary of the opposition parliamentary faction Pativ Unem (I Have Honor) Tigran Abrahamyan....
07/31/2023Nagorno-Karabakh: any meeting on Azerbaijani territory is risky
Any meeting in the territory of Azerbaijan, moreover, without the involvement of international mediators, is greatly risky, especially considering the fact of kidnapping Vagif Khachatryan, who was under the mandate of the ICRC, in the presence of the Russian peacekeepers, the Nagorno-Karabakh Foreign Ministry said in a statement. YEREVAN, August 24. /ARKA/. Any meeting in the territory of Azerbaijan, moreover, without ...
08/24/2023Pashinyan: Azerbaijan plans to present territorial claims against Armenia
... steps that would minimize this chance- from torpedoing of the international mechanism for establishing the Stepanakert-Baku dialogue, from preserving the illegal blockade of the Lachin corridor and from arresting the abducted Nagorno-Karabakh resident Vagif Khachatryan, who was being transported to Yerevan through the Lachin corridor under the auspices of the ICRC," Pashinyan said. He noted that the release of Khachatryan, as well as other Armenian captives, would be an impressive signal of readiness ...
08/03/2023Artsakh human rights defender reports return of three kidnapped students by Azerbaijan
... He noted that an investigation will be conducted into the details of the students' kidnapping, treatment and health condition during their illegal imprisonment by Azerbaijan. "The kidnapping and arbitrary imprisonment of civilians, particularly Vagif Khachatryan, Rashid Beglaryan, Alen Sargsyan, Vahe Hovsepyan and Levon Grigoryan, as well as Azerbaijan's investigation of false and fabricated criminal cases, unequivocally prove that the illegal Azerbaijani checkpoint located near Khakari Bridge ...
09/07/2023Armenian Foreign Ministry urges Zakharova not to complicate situation with inaction of Russian peacekeepers amid Azerbaijan's blockade of Lachin corridor
... -In the conditions of such arbitrariness in the presence of Russian peacekeepers, the Azerbaijani side resorts to steps such as the abduction of residents of Nagorno-Karabakh at the illegal checkpoint in the Lachin corridor: the case of abduction of Vagif Khachatryan on July 29, followed by the case of three students on August 28. -Unfortunately, such practices of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh are nothing new. On December 11, 2020, the violation of the contact line in Nagorno-Karabakh,...
08/31/2023Nagorno-Karabakh human rights defender says Azerbaijan kidnapped three students in Lachin corridor
... have repeatedly noted that the illegal checkpoint at the Khakari Bridge poses a direct and undeniable threat to the physical existence and protection of the fundamental rights of the civilian population of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). The abduction of Vagif Khachatryan (he was abducted in late July) and Alen Sargsyan irrefutably proves that the so-called checkpoint has turned into a tool to serve Azerbaijani criminal arbitrariness," Gegham Stepanyan said. He recalled that 120,000 residents of ...
08/28/2023Azerbaijanis kidnap 22 year-old Nagorno-Karabakh student at illegal checkpoint in Lachin corridor
... continue his studies. "Azerbaijan continues its genocidal policy against the people of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), once again violating the norms of international humanitarian law," the Center said. On July 29, a 68-year-old Artsakh citizen Vagif Khachatryan, accompanied by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), was on his way to Yerevan for medical treatment and was abducted by Azerbaijani border guards at the Lachin corridor checkpoint. -0-
08/28/2023Mirzoyan stresses the importance of steps to be taken by international community to unblock Lachin Corridor
... stressed, as well as the need to ensure full and uninterrupted activity of the ICRC, the only international humanitarian organization that has access to Nagorno-Karabakh. Mirzoyan also commented on the abduction by the Azerbaijani border service of Vagif Khachatryan, whom the ICRC was transporting from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia for medical treatment on July 29, and stressed the absolute inadmissibility of such a practice," the ministry said. For eight months now, 120,000 Armenians in Artsakh ...
08/09/2023Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister calls on UN Security Council to restore safe and uninterrupted humanitarian access to Artsakh
... bring humanitarian assistance to the civilian population through the Lachin corridor, while stressing that its humanitarian aid convoys are a lifeline for the population in the area. After 3 days of this communication Azerbaijan arrested 68-year-old Vagif Khachatryan, a person who was being transported by the ICRC from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia for medical treatment. The arrest of a person under the ICRC protection whose transfer was preliminary agreed with Azerbaijan is not merely perfidious act ...
08/04/2023Mirzoyan: international partners should take clear steps to prevent ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh
... Nagorno-Karabakh. The need to ensure full and uninterrupted functioning of the ICRC, the only humanitarian organization having access to Nagorno-Karabakh, was stressed. Foreign Minister described the case of abduction by the border guard service of Azerbaijan of Vagif Khachatryan, who was being transported from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia for medical treatment, as a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law. Minister Mirzoyan reiterated the position of the Armenian side on the importance of addressing ...
08/03/2023Mirzoyan describes abduction of Nagorno-Karabakh citizen by Azerbaijanis ’ a perfidious and unacceptable act’
... international humanitarian organization with access to Nagorno-Karabakh and described Azerbaijan's attempts to hinder the humanitarian activities of the ICRC and discredit it as condemnable. In this context, Minister Mirzoyan touched upon the abduction of Vagif Khachatryan by the Azerbaijani border service on July 29, who, having serious health issues, was being transported from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia for medical treatment. The minister called this act perfidious and unacceptable, running counter ...
08/02/2023State Department: peace in the region must include protection of rights and security of the people of Karabakh
... corridor closed to commercial, humanitarian and private vehicles, the U.S. Department of State said in a comment to the request of the Armenian Service of Voice of America. The State Department said that the United States is aware of "the arrest' of Vagif Khachatryan (a resident of Nagorno-Karabakh), who was on his way to Armenia for medical treatment and was accompanied by an international humanitarian organization (ICRC). He was arrested by Azerbaijanis at a checkpoint in the Lachin corridor. The ...
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