The Chairman of the Caucasian Muslim Board, Sheikh-ul-Islam Haji Allahshukur Pashazadeh, plans to petition to the Catholicos of All Armenians, Karekin II, in connection with the Azerbaijani saboteurs who are standing trial in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.  

Sheikh-ul-Islam noted that he already discussed this matter with the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia and that this matter will be introduced, in the near future, also at the talk with the Catholicos of All Armenians, Vesti.az reported. 

Pashazadeh added that the law enforcement agencies and the defense organizations can take the most correct steps on this matter.      

“We are always with the state and we can take all necessary steps. And we will do everything in our power,” stated the head of the Caucasian Muslim Board.   

According to the NKR Police, Azerbaijani citizens Shahbaz Guliyev (born in 1968), Dilham Askerov (born in 1960), and Hasan Hasanov, who was shot by law enforcement agents at the spot, illegally crossed the state border of Karabakh armed with a weapon and ammunition on June 29. The three entered the territory of the Shahumyan region of Karabakh as enemy spies to collect information and carry out espionage tasks.

On July 4, they kidnapped and murdered the citizen of Karabakh, 17-year-old Smbat Tsakanyan, whose body was found on July 15 with gunshot wounds in the forest at Shahumyan region. In addition, in the evening of July 11, on Vardenis-Karvachar highway Hasanov killed the resident of Yerevan Sargis Abrahamyan (born in 1971), and severely wounded the resident of Armenian Dzoraghbyur village Karine Davtyan.

Hasanov was armed and resisted during the arrest; as a result, he was neutralized by the NKR special forces. The two others, Shahbaz Guliyev and Dilham Askerov, were arrested and detained.

Dilham Askerov is 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. Shahbaz Guliyev is 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.

The court hearing of the criminal case into Dilham Askerov and Shahbaz Guliyev is in progress at the NKR capital city Stepanakert seat of the NKR First Instance General Jurisdiction Court.