Red Cross visits Armenian elderly captive in Azerbaijan solely once

Three weeks have passed since Mamikon Khojoyan’s falling prisoner in Azerbaijan, and during that time the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) workers in Baku were able to visit him only once.     

As reported earlier, Mamikon Khojoyan, 77, a resident of Verin Karmiraghbyur village of Armenia’s Tavush Region, was held captive by Azerbaijan on January 28. He suffers from mental illness.    

Nonetheless, the aforesaid fact did not obstruct Azerbaijan from attempting to present the old man as an “infiltrator.” And, perhaps, it appeared before the eyes of the Azerbaijani MOD staff that the alleged infiltrator was armed, too.