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Armenia's Investigative Committee has brought criminal charges against 5 out of 10 Armenian captives returned from Azerbaijan on December 4 and petitioned the Court to apply arrest as preventive measure for them. 

As Spokesperson at the Investigative Committee Vardan Tadevosyan told Panorama.am, the court hearings continue as of Friday morning, and rulings will be issued in the afternoon.

To note, the servicemen are charged with violation of combat duty regulations during war or military actions, which is punishable by imprisonment for the term of 4 to 10 years under Armenia's Criminal Code provisions.

Earlier, Nikol Pashinyan suggested the investigative bodies to investigate every case of captivity to find our circumstance of capture and determine whether there are elements of crime in their actions.