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STEPANAKERT. - Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Nagorno-Karabakh have visited the detained citizens of Azerbaijan Dilham Askerov and Shahbaz Guliyev.

“On February 03, the ICRC in Nagorno-Karabakh visited again two Azerbaijani detainees and provided them with an opportunity to exchange family news. According to its mandate, the ICRC will continue its visits to these individuals in detention on a regular basis to monitor treatment and conditions of detention and help to ensure that the detainees are able to maintain contact with their families," head of communication department at ICRC in Karabakh, Eteri Musaelyan, told Armenian News-NEWS.am correspondent.

Azerbaijani sabotage and intelligence-gathering team member Dilham Askerov was charged with espionage; unauthorized border trespass; kidnapping and violence against a minor, committed by an organized group; murder committed by an organized group motivated by ethnic hatred; and attempt of murder of two persons, committed by an organized group, motivated by ethnic hatred. The other team member, Shahbaz Guliyev, on the other hand, was charged with espionage; unauthorized border trespass; kidnapping and violence against a minor, committed by an organized group; and murder committed by an organized group motivated by ethnic hatred.

On December 29, 2014, the First Instance General Jurisdiction Court of the NKR sentenced Askerov and Guliyev to life and 22 years, respectively, in prison.

The saboteur’s attorneys, however, had appealed these sentences. But on March 10, the NKR Court of Appeal upheld the earlier court verdict.

So, the attorneys of Dilham Askerov and Shahbaz Guliyev had appealed, at the NKR Supreme Court, the rulings handed down by the two previous tribunals.

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