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Spokesperson for the Artsakh Republic president David Babayan took to Facebook on Wednesday to reflect on Azerbaijan’s reaction to the release of its citizen Elnur Husseinzadeh on 2 February after serving a two-year jail sentence in Artsakh.

“A few days ago, Azerbaijani citizen Elnur Husseinzadeh, who illegally crossed Artsakh’s border two years ago, was released. Of course, it has generated ambiguous feelings and emotions in our society. But such a step is first of all the requirement of the law, since any person, regardless of nationality, religion and political views, should be released after serving his punishment.

Apart from this, such an approach is in line with the Armenian national system of values and worldview. Our people have great sense of patriotism and always consider the Nazi or Fascist ideologies as alien and fatal. Unfortunately, Nazism and Fascist constitute the basis of the state building philosophy in Azerbaijan.

What was the response of Azerbaijan? It was extremely predictable. Baku has launched an international search for its own citizen Elnur Husseinzadeh. There are several reasons for this.

First of all, this person did not want to return to Azerbaijan from the very beginning seeing no prospects there for his future. Second, even his name and surname show that that Elnur Husseinzadeh isn’t a full-blooded Azerbaijani.

In any Fascist country these circumstances are sufficient grounds for persecuting, imprisoning, and killing a person. There are thousands of such examples in Azerbaijan.

So, an individual example of Elnur Husseinzadeh once again demonstrates the true nature of Azerbaijan, the violation of democracy and  human rights there, the disrespectful attitude towards the Islamic values and the terrorist nature of the state,” reads the post.