Trial of Armenians in Baku: “Azerbaijan is trying to turn the tide”

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“I declare and insist on my absolute innocence, that of my compatriots, and I demand that this politicized case against us be brought to an immediate end,” pleads Ruben Vardanyan, a prisoner of Azerbaijan since 2023, in a message sent to his family on 16 January. Like this former minister of state of the Republic of Artsakh or Nagorno-Karabakh, 15 other Armenian prisoners out of the 23 known are appearing before his family on 16 January. the mil…

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Azerbaijan prosecutes former leaders of Nagorny Karabakh, territory of predominantly Armenian population that remained independent of Baku until 2023, including the businessman, philanthropist and Minister of State Rubén Vardanián. In turn, the defence maintains that it is a political persecution and that there is no body of crime in its actions.