YEREVAN. – The Azerbaijani family of five, who had requested political asylum from Armenia last January, has left Armenia. 

The head of the Armenian State Migration Agency, Gagik Yeganyan, told the aforesaid to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

In his words, the Orujev family had left Armenia in early December 2014, and it is not known where they have gone.

As reported earlier, in January 2014, Azerbaijani capital city Baku resident of Javid Orujev (born in 1976), together with his wife and three children, had applied to Armenia seeking political asylum for his family. The Azerbaijani citizen had explained his decision by the persecution against him in his homeland. In particular, Orujev had pointed to the pressure of the Azerbaijani special services after his marriage to Roya Mirzoyeva (born in 1983), who has Armenian roots. In April 2014, the Azerbaijani family’s request for asylum in Armenia was granted.