YEREVAN. – The ongoing “judicial process” in Azerbaijan, and with respect to Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) citizen Arsen Baghdasaryan, is politicized.

Armen Kaprielyan, who heads the working group of Armenia’s Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons, told the aforementioned to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

Kaprielyan expressed his personal view on the several absurd charges which Azerbaijan has brought against the Armenian captive.

“The trial has become a farce,” he stressed. “The demand for sentencing the captive to long-term imprisonment is politicized, too, and it is a primitive response to the Azerbaijani saboteurs’ sentencing [to prison] in the NKR.”

As reported earlier, the Ganja Court on Grave Crimes of Azerbaijan resumed the “hearing” on the case of Baghdasaryan. And the prosecution demanded that the Armenian captive be sentenced to eighteen years in a maximum security prison.

Within the framework of this hastily concocted case, NKR citizen Arsen Baghdasaryan was charged with “sabotage” and sentenced to pretrial detention. This action by the Azerbaijan authorities was a reprisal to the arrest and subsequent conviction, in the NKR, of Azerbaijani saboteurs Dilham Askerov and Shahbaz Guliyev, who were detained with weapons in their hands and who plead guilty in court.

To note, the case brought against Arsen Baghdasaryan is also a vivid illustration of Azerbaijan’s violation of international human rights. The Azerbaijani authorities had not permitted the International Committee of the Red Cross representatives to see him for 1.5 months since his capture. Baghdasaryan was taken into Azerbaijan captivity on December 26 of the year past.