ICRC Communication and Prevention Programs Manager Zara Amatuni told Sputnik Armenia that during the meeting they were given an opportunity to contact their relatives. The military-political leadershi...
Prisoners of war
Fernand Kartheiser, a member of the European Parliament from Luxembourg, sent a letter to Azerbaijani Ambassador to the EU Vagif Sadykov, expressing hope that Baku will take steps toward some of the m...
A year ago, Armenians fled Nagorno-Karabakh in the wake of Azerbaijan’s military operation. But not everyone was allowed to go to neighboring Armenia. The leaders of Karabakh Armenians, including bill...
Next month, dozens of heads of state, hundreds of diplomats, and thousands of activists will gather in Baku, Azerbaijan for the 29th annual U.N. climate change conference, Michael Rubin, a senior fell...
COP29, the U.N. climate change conference, is a “good” opportunity to raise the problems facing Armenia, attract international attention, and talk about hostages, Artak Beglaryan, the former state min...
Armenian military and political prisoners have been kept in Azerbaijan for a year already. There have been no discussions about the terms of their return, and we cannot even see that issue on the gove...
In an article titled “Strange Lobbying Campaign of the Week”, prestigious newspaper Politico wrote how Azerbaijan is running a lobbying campaign abroad against Ruben Vardanyan, an Armenian philanthrop...
A number of international media outlets referred to the urgent appeal submitted by the international legal team of Ruben Vardanyan, who is illegally held captive in Azerbaijan. The appeal was submitte...
Former State Minister of Artsakh Ruben Vardanyan was tortured in prison in Baku. He was forced to keep standing for a long time, was deprived of water, and was refused the opportunity to wash and chan...
On June 13, the international legal team for Ruben Vardanyan, a political prisoner detained in Azerbaijan, filed an urgent appeal with the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture, imploring her to condemn ...
The court of Baku considered the appeal against the extension of the pre-trial detention term imposed on former State Minister of Artsakh Ruben Vardanyan, the Azerbaijani media reports. The decision w...
The family of Ruben Vardanyan, the former state minister of Artsakh, issued a statement, which reads as follows: “The Azerbaijani court has once again extended the pre-trial detention of Ruben Vardany...