Giorgi Gogia, Associate Director, Europe and Central Asia Division at Human Rights Watch, referred to the illegal verdict of the Armenian captives from Shirak by a Baku court today. He noted that Azerbaijan’s prosecution of Armenian Prisoners of war on illegal border crossing charges is a breach of Geneva Convention III.
“Captured combatants should have been afforded POWs status and returned after hostilities ended,” Gogia tweeted.
Baku Serious Crimes Court has sentenced 13 Armenian prisoners of war to 6 years in prison on fake charges.
