The Center for Truth and Justice has requested the government of Azerbaijan allow a team of distinguished international lawyers to travel to Azerbaijani capital Baku to attend and monitor the upcoming trials of Armenian prisoners, set to begin on Friday, reports Asbarez.

The trials involve eight political and military leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh which was ethnically cleansed by Azerbaijan’s ten-month-long blockade followed by military aggression in September of 2023, when 120,000 Armenians were forced to flee to Armenia.

The international monitors awaiting visas from Azerbaijan include Ana Maria Careaga, Director of the Instituto Espacio para la Memoria and Director of the Institute for Human Rights Studies at Atlantida University; Claudia Viviana Rocca, lawyer and President of the Argentine Association of Jurists, Professor at the National University of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and National University of Moreno, Argentina; Irene Victoria Massimino, lawyer and expert in human rights and international criminal law; Former Rapporteur of the High Criminal Court of Buenos Aires; Professor of Law; USA; Avi Singh, Senior Advocate and International Criminal Lawyer.