Dozens of students protested in front of the entrance to the Yerevan office of the International Committee of the Red Cross, demanding a meeting with its head over the arrest by Azerbaijan of a patient transported by ICRC from Nagorno Karabakh to Yerevan for a surgery.

The students gathered from different Armenian universities chanted "Freedom to Vagif Khachatryan" who was arrested by Azerbaijan’s State Border Service on Saturday and taken to an undisclosed location.   

"We demand a meeting with the head of the ICRC, we also demand that a press conference be held in Geneva to inform everyone that a person was kidnapped from their direct control, otherwise it will look like they agree with what happened on Saturday," said a participant of the protest.

The protesters called on the ICRC employees not to be indifferent, to raise the alarm about everything that happens in Nagorno Karabakh.

After Vagif Khachatryan, 68, was held by Azerbaijani State Border Service on Saturday, the Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan announced that he was arrested. According to the accusation, Vagif Khachatryan allegedly created a criminal group in 1991 and participated in the crimes against the residents of Meshali village of Khojaly region.