Arkadi Israyelyan, the attorney of Azerbaijani saboteur Shahbaz Guliyev, will petition to the Chamber of Appeals of the Supreme Court of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), and challenge the rulings handed down by the two lower courts.

Israyelyan told about the aforesaid to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

The attorney informed that he spoke with Guliyev, and the latter had made such a decision.

As reported earlier, Azerbaijani sabotage and intelligence-gathering team member Dilham Askerov was 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. The other team member, Shahbaz Guliyev, on the other hand, was 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.

On December 29, 2014, the First Instance General Jurisdiction Court of the NKR had sentenced Askerov and Guliyev to life and 22 years, respectively, in prison.

The saboteur’s attorneys, however, had appealed these sentences. But on March 10, the NKR Court of Appeal upheld the earlier court verdict.