Karabakh hands over teen to Azerbaijan
The Nagorno-Karabakh authorities handed over 15-year-old Azerbaijani boy, Muzafarzade Javid Samiroglu, to Azerbaijan.
“The Nagorno-Karabakh authorities, showing good will and commitment to the Geneva Convention, with assistance from the ICRC Stepanakert Office, handed over to representatives of the Republic of Azerbaijan Muzafarzade Javid Samiroglu, born in 1999, resident of Mir Bashir town of Azerbaijan, who crossed the Nagorno-Karabakh border in Martakert region on September 5, 2014 and was detained by the relevant agencies of NKR,” says a statement released on Thursday.
The Nagorno-Karabakh State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons reports that the teen was handed over to Azerbaijan at 3:04 pm local time on September 11, on the Karabakh-Azerbaijan border, near Bash Karvend village.
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