The OSCE representatives have been informed about the numerous injuries that were found on the body of Mamikon Khojoyan, who has been returned to Armenia after being held captive in Azerbaijan.    

During Wednesday’s OSCE monitoring on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border, Yevgeny Sharov and William Pryor, field assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, were informed about the aforesaid injuries, and the OSCE representatives took note of this information.  

Khojoyan is hospitalized, and according to preliminary data, the elderly man has a gunshot wound, a fracture, and injuries.    

Head of the Azerbaijani MOD press service had claimed that Khojoyan was already wounded when he was taken prisoner. This claim, however, is doubtful, given a set of circumstances including the apparent deterioration of the elderly man’s psychological state and his complaints about beatings under Azerbaijani captivity.

As reported earlier, Mamikon Khojoyan, 77, a resident of Verin Karmiraghbyur village of Armenia’s Tavush Region, was taken 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.