{"id":134969,"date":"2025-03-04T11:33:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T07:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=134969"},"modified":"2025-03-04T14:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T10:46:13","slug":"jared-genser-calls-on-armenian-authorities-to-actively-engage-in-release-of-prisoners-from-baku-jails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/134969\/","title":{"rendered":"Jared Genser calls on Armenian authorities to actively engage in release of prisoners from Baku jails"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Jared Genser, the lawyer for Ruben Vardanyan&rsquo;s family, has urged the Armenian authorities to take a more active role in the effort to secure the release of prisoners from Baku&rsquo;s jails, outlining what Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan can do, Sputnik Armenia reports.<\/p>\n<p>Genser suggested:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>prioritizing the release of prisoners, convening a press conference, and writing articles for leading publications;<\/li>\n<li>meeting with the families of the prisoners, appealing to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the OSCE to send observers to the &ldquo;courts&rdquo;;<\/li>\n<li>calling on allied countries with embassies in Baku to send their representatives to these &ldquo;courts&rdquo; and even requesting that Baku allow Armenian observers to participate;<\/li>\n<li>reaching out to the U.S. president and the secretary of state, as well as the leaders of France and the EU;<\/li>\n<li>continuing proceedings in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR); calling on the ICC prosecutor to investigate the expulsion of 120,000 Armenians from Artsakh to Armenia;<\/li>\n<li>appealing to the U.N. secretary-general and the U.N. high commissioner for human rights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jared Genser, the lawyer for Ruben Vardanyan&rsquo;s family, has urged the Armenian authorities to take a more active role in the effort to secure the release of prisoners from Baku&rsquo;s jails, outlining what Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan can do, Sputnik Armenia reports. Genser suggested: prioritizing the release of prisoners, convening a press conference, and writing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":134905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,35,43,95,98,41,47,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prisonersofwar","category-politics","category-world","category-azerbeijan","category-other-en","category-artsakh","category-society","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}