Prisoners Gevorg Sujyan, David Davtyan, Vicken Euljekjian, and Vagif  Khachatryan  handed over to Armenia

ArmInfo.   Gevorg Sujyan, David Davtyan, Vicken Euljekjian, and Vagif Khachatryan were handed over to the Armenian side, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced on social media.

"Gevorg Sujyan, David Davtyan, Vicken Euljekjian, and Vagif  Khachatryan were  handed over a short while by  the relevant  authorities of the Republic of Azerbaijan to  the relevant  authorities of the Republic of Armenia via the Hakari Bridge and are  now in the territory of the Republic of Armenia. I will provide  additional information later," he wrote.

Sujyan, Davtyan, and Euljekjian were captured in November 2020, the  day after the signing of the trilateral statement. In 2021,  Euljekchyan was sentenced to 20 years in prison on trumped-up charges  of terrorism and mercenarism. David Davtyan was captured (along with  his friend, Gevorg Sujyan) on November 11, 2020, while delivering  humanitarian aid along the Berdzor-Shushi road. Gevorg Sujyan was  captures while delivering humanitarian aid along the Berdzor-Shushi  road and has been held captive (along with David Davtyan) since  November 11, 2020. In 2021, Sujyan and Davtyan were sentenced to 15  years in prison on trumped-up charges of espionage. Vagif Khachatryan  was abducted near an illegal Azerbaijani checkpoint in the Lachin  corridor while being evacuated in a Red Cross vehicle for emergency  medical care and has been held captive since July 29, 2023. In 2023,  Khachatryan was sentenced to 15 years in prison on trumped-up charges  of "committing genocide" in the 1990s.

Earlier, Artak Beglaryan, former State Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh  and former ombudsman, published a list of 23 individuals whose  capture had been confirmed. Among them are six civilians, nine  prisoners of war, and eight political prisoners (representatives of  the military-political leadership of Artsakh).