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.