Former Karabakh leader’s trial in Baku puts Armenian government under pressure

Former Karabakh leader’s trial in Baku puts Armenian government under pressure

Ruben Vardanyan’s ongoing trial has sparked protests and deepened anti-government sentiment in Armenia, where PM Nikol Pashinyan has been slammed for his lack of action.

Wounds and Empathy in the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict

Upon visiting Karabakh in 1994, there were two possible routes for my return to Yerevan. The first was the same way I arrived by military helicopter, and the second was by road. With no highway in place at the time, that would take longer and prove more challenging. Even if the helicopter on the way to Karabakh had to perform an evasive manoeuvre when the pilot was informed of Azerbaijani activity in the area, it was by far the quickest and made…

Bishop Hovakim Manukyan and Christian Leaders Urge UK Action on Armenian Detainees

Bishop Hovakim Manukyan of the Diocese of The Armenian Church of the United Kingdom & Ireland, together with a group of Christian leaders, has sent a letter to the UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, expressing deep concern over the unlawful detention of 23 Armenians by Azerbaijan. Following the forced displacement of 120,000 Armenians from Artsakh...

Baku Continues to Press Precondition for Peace Deal With Yerevan

YEREVAN (Azatutyun.am)—Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov reiterated Baku’s main precondition for signing a peace deal with Armenia on Tuesday one day after his Armenian counterpart said the two nations are now closer to ending their conflict than ever before. “Despite the great progress made towards the normalization of interstate relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia and the signing of a final peace agreement, I would like to note…

Human Rights Attorney Jared Genser Is Making the Case for Ruben Vardanyan - The Armenian Mirror-Spectator

WASHINGTON — Those of us in the diaspora are seeing increasingly worrisome pictures from the trials of Karabakh (Artsakh) Armenian political prisoners in Azerbaijan. The trials, near-universally acknowledged as shams, seem focused on making an example out of one former Artsakh leader, Ruben Vardanyan. While attorneys Siranush Sahakyan in Armenia and Philippe Raffi Kalfayan in France are working on the case of Vardanyan and the other political pr…

Viktor Nadein-Rayevsky, senior researcher at the IMEMO RAS, believes that the trial of the former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh in Baku has no legal basis. On RUSARMINFO, the expert said that Azerbaijan cannot judge the leaders of Karabakh (the Armenian name for Artsakh) because it did not control this territory. As part of the “A Day with Nver Mnatsakanyan” program, Nadein-Rayevsky noted that the Armenians of Karabakh held a referendum and left t…