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Within the framework of his official visit to Geneva, Switzerland, Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met with president Peter Maurer of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), reported APA news agency of Azerbaijan.

Among other matters, Mammadyarov spoke also about the chances for the release of Dilgam Asgarov and Shahbaz Guliyev, Azerbaijani prisoners in Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh), and attempted to portray them as “innocent victims.”

The Azerbaijan FM, however, said nothing about Armenian captives Arsen Baghdasaryan and Zaven Karapetyan. 

Karapetyan was captured on June 20, 2017, and he had mental problems. Even though his psychological disadvantages were outwardly apparent, this did not prevent Azerbaijan from presenting him as a soldier.

Azerbaijani citizens Shahbaz Guliyev (born in 1968), Dilgam Asgarov (born in 1960), and Hasan Hasanov—who was killed by the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh Republic/NKR) armed forces while rendering these saboteurs ineffective—had illegally crossed the NKR state border on June 29, 2014, and they were armed with weapons and ammunition. The three had entered the territory of the Shahumyan Region of Karabakh, and as spies, to collect information and carry out espionage.

On July 4, 2014, they had kidnapped and subsequently murdered Karabakh citizen Smbat Tsakanyan, 17, whose body was found on July 15, 2014, and with gunshot wounds, in a forest at the Shahumyan Region.

In addition, on the evening of July 11, 2014, Hasanov had killed Armenia capital city Yerevan resident Sargis Abrahamyan (born in 1971), and severely wounded Armenia’s Dzoraghbyur village resident Karine Davtyan, on the Vardenis-Karvachar Highway. Hasanov was armed and he resisted arrest; as a result, he was neutralized by the NKR special forces. Guliyev and Asgarov, on the other hand, were detained, and they faced trial in the NKR.

Asgarov was charged with espionage; unauthorized border trespass; kidnapping and violence against a minor, committed by an organized group; murder committed by an organized group motivated by ethnic hatred; and attempt of murder of two persons, committed by an organized group, motivated by ethnic hatred.

Guliyev was charged with espionage; unauthorized border trespass; kidnapping and violence against a minor, committed by an organized group; and murder committed by an organized group motivated by ethnic hatred.

And on December 29, 2014, the First Instance General Jurisdiction Court of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic sentenced Dilgam Asgarov and Shahbaz Guliyev to life and 22 years, respectively, in prison.

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