ICRC staff visited Armenians and Azerbaijanis detained as a result of  Karabakh conflict

ArmInfo. Employees of International Committee of the Red Cross visited persons detained as a result of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in August this year, worker of  information department of ICRC mission in Artsakh Eteri Musaelyan  stated to ArmInfo's reporter. 

In August, the ICRC visited again the detainees captured in relation  to Nagorno-Karabagh conflict. We keep visiting people detained in  relation to the conflict on a regular basis. According to its  mandate, the ICRC visits detained individuals to monitor treatment  and conditions of detention and help to ensure that the detainees are  able to maintain contact with their families.

To recall, on 29 June 2014, Shahbaz Jalal oghli Guliyev, Dilham   Gardashkhan oghli Askerov and Hasan Hasanov illegally penetrated into   the territory of NKR having with then arms and ammunition and   attempted a sabotage attack. They were spying and even kidnapped   minor Smbat Tsakanayn, a citizen of NKR on 4 July, who was later  found with deadly wounds to the head.  Afterwards, on 11 July, on the   Vardenis- Karvachar road, Hasanov murdered a resident of Yerevan   Sargis Abrahamyan (born in 1971) and wounded Karine Davtyan, a   resident of Dzoraghbyur village on the grounds of national hatred. He   was killed showing armed resistance to the Armenian forces.  The  other two raiders were arrested.  Shahbaz Guliyev, 46, and Dilham   Askerov, 54, were charged under the NKR Criminal Code's Article 316   (spying), Article 350 part 2 (violation of the NKR's border by an   organized group), Article 245 part 3 (illegal carrying of arms and   ammunition), Article 129 part 3 point 1 (kidnapping, actions against   a minor with the use of arms), Article 103 part 2 points 3,7,14   (murder combined with kidnapping by an organized group out of ethnic   hatred) and Articles 33 and 103 part 1 point 14 (attempted murder of   two or more people by an organized group out of ethnic hatred).  On  29  Dec 2014, Dilham Askerov was sentenced to life imprisonment and   Shahbaz Guliyev - to 22 years in jail. The Court of Appeal left the   verdict unchanged.