CNA Staff, Oct 10, 2023 / 11:30 am
Several key ethnic Armenian leaders in Nagorno-Karabakh were arrested over the past week following a violent takeover by Azerbaijan.
Arayik Harutyunyan, recent president of the now defunct ethnic Armenian Republic of Artsakh, also known as Nagorno-Karabakh, was among those arrested by the Azeri military on Oct. 3. He has been imprisoned in the Azeri capital city of Baku and is currently being tried for his role in leading the separatist government and participating in military campaigns against Azerbaijan, according to the Azeri State Security Service.
The Azeri Times, a pro-Azeri government news source, reported that Harutyunyan is also being charged with “directing missile strikes” in 2020 “that led to the death of 100 Azerbaijani civilians and injured 416 others.”
The State Security Service (DTX) of #Azerbaijan have taken Arayik Harutyunyan (former president of separatist regime in Karabakh) into custody and brought him to #Baku. He is expected to face charges for directing missile strikes on #Ganja, #Barda, and #Tartar in 2020 that led… pic.twitter.com/18xnsBhN6D
— The Azeri Times (@AzeriTimes) October 5, 2023