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STEPANAKERT. – The trial on the criminal case into Azerbaijani defendants Dilham Askerov and Shahbaz Guliyev resumed Friday at the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR; Artsakh) capital city Stepanakert seat of the NKR First Instance General Jurisdiction Court.

At the hearing, the prosecution presented the indictment, Artsakhpress reported. It concluded that the defendants had crossed the NKR-Azerbaijan border illegally and without documents, and to gather information and make video recordings.

The prosecution added that all the evidence on the death of Karabakh teen Smbat Tsakanyan suggests that Askerov had committed this crime.

As per the prosecution, it is a fact that Guliyev was one of the three members of the Azerbaijani criminal group, even though he had not made any vide recordings, he was always with this group

In the end, the prosecution motioned the court that, pursuant to the NKR Criminal Code, Dilham Askerov be sentenced to life in prison, and Shahbaz Guliyev be handed down a 22-year prison term.

According to the NKR Police, Azerbaijani citizens Shahbaz Guliyev (born in 1968), Dilham Askerov (born in 1960), and Hasan Hasanov—who was killed by the Armenian armed forces while rendering the saboteurs ineffective—illegally crossed the state border of Karabakh on June 29, and they were armed with weapons and ammunition. The three entered the territory of the Shahumyan region of Karabakh as spies to collect information and carry out espionage.

On July 4, they kidnapped and subsequently murdered a Karabakh citizen, 17-year-old Smbat Tsakanyan, whose body was found on July 15 with gunshot wounds in a forest at Shahumyan region.

In addition, on the evening of July 11, Hasanov killed Armenia capital city Yerevan resident Sargis Abrahamyan (born in 1971), and severely wounded Armenia’s Dzoraghbyur village resident Karine Davtyan, on the Vardenis-Karvachar Highway. Hasanov was armed and he resisted during the arrest; as a result, he was neutralized by the NKR special forces. The two others, Shahbaz Guliyev and Dilham Askerov, were detained, and they now stand trial in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.

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