The fabricated accusations of Azerbaijan against the former military and political leadership of the occupied Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) Republic cover up the crimes committed against the people of Nagorno-Karabakh, including the prisoners (i.e. the Armenian prisoners held illegally in the prisons of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan). Luis Moreno Ocampo, the former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, stated about this in his video posted on X.

Ocampo reminded that these “criminal trials” will begin on Friday in Baku.

“Azerbaijan's bogus charges are a cover-up of the crimes committed against the Nagorno-Karabakh people, including the prisoners,” Ocampo wrote, and used the hashtag #FreeArmenianHostages.

"Stalin is dead, but [Azerbaijani president Ilham] Aliyev is learning from him, using show trials to attack his enemies. That is happening today in Azerbaijan," Ocampo said. 

Former presidents of Nagorno Karabakh Arkadi Ghukasyan, Bako Sahakyan and Arayik Harutyunyan, former state minister Ruben Vardanyan, former foreign minister David Babayan, former parliament speaker Davit Ishkhanyan, former defense minister Levon Mnatsakanyan, and former deputy defense minister Davit Manukyan are also among the Armenians being held captive in Azerbaijan.