ICRC staff visited Armenian warprisoners in Azerbaijan and Azeris in  Armenian

ArmInfo. Staff of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) visited the Armenian warprisoners, who are in Azerbaijan and Azeris, who are in Armenia.

According to Eteri Musaelyan, a spokesperson for the ICRC mission in  Artsakh, the visits were carried out during May: "ICRC staff  regularly visit persons held by the parties. The purpose of the  visits is monitoring of the conditions of their detention and  treatment, as well as ensuring communication with relatives."

At the moment, three Azeris are detained- saboteurs Dilgam Askerov  and Shahbaz Guliyev, serving sentences in Artsakh, as well as Elnur  Huseynzade, who was captured near the village of Talish, on February  1, 2017, on suspicion of attempting to sabotage and illegally  crossing the state border of Artsakh.

To recall, Azeri citizens Shahbaz Guliyev (1968), Dilgam Askerov  (1960), and the liquidated third participant of the group Hasan  Hasanov, carrying weapons and ammunition, illegally crossed the state  border of Artsakh on June 29, penetrated into the territory of the  Shahumyan district of the republic with the purpose of carrying out  reconnaissance activities. These individuals on a special mission  collected information and carried out espionage activities. Moreover,  they, with the use of weapons, kidnapped a minor citizen of Artsakh  Smbat Tsakanyan on July 4, whose body was found on July 15 with  gunshot wounds in the forest belt of Karvachar and Manashid  communities of Shahumyan district. In addition, Hasanov killed a  resident of Yerevan Sargis Abrahamyan (1971) on the 32nd kilometer of  the Vardenis- Karvachar highway on the grounds of national hatred at  the evening July 11, and wounded Karine Davtyan, a resident of  Dzoraghbyur village of Kotayk province. He showed resistance during  the operation to detain him and was neutralized. On December 29,  2014, Dilgam Askerov was sentenced to life imprisonment.  Shahbaz  Guliyev was sentenced to 22 years in prison. The Court of Appeal left  the verdict unchanged.

In Azerbaijan, two Armenians are detained - a prisoner of war, Arsen  Baghdasaryan, sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment and a shepherd  Zaven Karapetyan, who was captured this summer.