YEREVAN. - Armenian human rights lawyers have applied to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on the sidelines of the death of Karen Petrosyan, who died in the Azerbaijani captivity in 2014.

Human rights lawyer Artak Zeynalyan told the aforementioned to Armenian News – NEWS.am.

In his words, the ground for the application is the violation of the right to life. Zeynalyan promised to inform later under which circumstances Petrosyan died and how he was treated in captivity.

Karen Petrosyan, the resident of Chinari village of Armenia’s Tavush province, was captured on 7 August 2014. On 8 August, the Azerbaijani side disseminated information on the death of the captive, allegedly as a result of ‘cardiac failure.’ On 10 October the Azerbaijani authorities handed Karen Petrosyan’s body to Armenia.

The man’s body was repatriated only two months after his death, following repeated reminders from the representatives of international authorities on the unacceptability of such treatment by the Azerbaijani authorities.

The National Security Service of Armenia launched a criminal case into the incident.