Red Cross delegates visit Armenian captive in Azerbaijan

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 9, ARMENPRESS: The representatives of the Baku Office of the International Committee of the Red Cross met with the Armenian captive in Azerbaijan Sargis Ananyan. The employee of the press department of the Armenian Red Cross Society Hasmik Galstyan told Armenpress about it. “On September 8 the representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross met with the Armenian captive in Azerbaijan Sargis Ananyan. The members of the family of the captive and the Armenian authorities were informed about it”, - said Galstyan.

On September 1 the Azerbaijani media informed about an Armenian captive. Sargis Ananyan, born in 1961, is a resident of Noyemberyan town. He crossed the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and appeared in Ghazakh Village. The Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan has posted Sargis Ananyan’s photo and a video. The Azerbaijani side insists that Ananyan has crossed the Armenian-Azerbaijani border on August 26. The neighbors of the Armenian captive in Noyemberyan told Armenpress that Sargis lived alone. According to the Azerbaijani media, Sargis Ananyan has got serious health problems.The Azerbaijani side again violated the clauses of the Geneva Convention, which relate to the citizens, who crossed the border accidentally and taken hostage and which envisage that no pressure and no public broadcast should be imposed on them. The Azerbaijani Anspress Agency, again ignoring the clauses of the Geneva Convention, interviewed the Armenian captive Sargis Ananyan, who crossed the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and has been transferred to the hospital of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan and published the video of the interview.

Earlier it was reported that a citizen of Azerbaijan was taken captive at an attempt to cross the state border of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic in the north-eastern direction (Upper Chaylu) of the line of contact of the Karabakh-Azerbaijani conflicting forces at 18:10 on September 5. Mamedov Javid Samiroglu was taken captive on Friday evening. The International Committee of the Red Cross has been informed about the incident, and Samiroglu has been handed over to relevant agencies of Nagorno Karabakh.The representatives of the Stepanakert Office of the International Committee of the Red Cross met with the Azerbaijani captive and passed him a letter from his family. They also took a letter from Samiroglu to pass to his family.