STEPANAKERT. - The court hearing over the case of Azeri sabotage team Dilham Askerov and Shahbaz Guliyev continues in Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) capital city of Stepanakert, Armenian News - NEWS.am reports.

During the session the videos of interrogations of Hakob Injigulyan, Armenian hostage kept for over a year in Azerbaijan, which were saved on the Azeri spies camera, has been released.

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

On July 4, they kidnapped and murdered the Karabakh citizen, 17-year-old Smbat Tsakanyan, whose body was found on July 15 with gunshot wounds in a forest at Shahumyan region.

In addition, on the evening of July 11, Hasanov killed Yerevan resident Sargis Abrahamyan (born in 1971), and severely wounded Armenian Dzoraghbyur village resident Karine Davtyan, on the Vardenis-Karvachar highway. Hasanov was armed and he resisted during the arrest; as a result, he was neutralized by the NKR special forces. The two others, Shahbaz Guliyev and Dilham Askerov, were 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.