STEPANAKERT. – According to its mandate, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) pays regular visits to the two Azerbaijanis who are imprisoned in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Communication Officer of the ICRC Mission in Nagorno-Karabakh, Eteri Musayelyan, told about the aforementioned to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

In her words, in addition to the constant monitoring of their detention conditions and the conduct towards them, during the ICRC visits they are given the chance to keep in touch with their relatives by way of the Red Cross messages, and to exchange family information. 

These Azerbaijani prisoners are saboteurs Dilham Askerov and Shahbaz Guliyev, whom the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic court had sentenced to prison.

At the same time, Azerbaijani media reported that Azerbaijani Deputy Prime Minister Ali Hasanov had met with ICRC President Peter Maurer, during his visit to Geneva, and had asked to help Askerov and Guliyev contact their relatives through mobile phones.