Azeri prosecutor seeks 15-year sentence for kidnapped Artsakh man
An Azerbaijani prosecutor is seeking a 15-year jail term for Vagif Khachatryan, a kidnapped Artsakh Armenian standing trial on fabricated charges in Baku.
At a court hearing on Tuesday, the prosecutor said Khachatryan must serve five years of his sentence in prison and a part of it in a high-security correctional facility.
The 68-year-old man was abducted and arrested by Azerbaijani border guards at the Lachin Corridor checkpoint on 29 July while being evacuated to Armenia by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for an urgent heart surgery.
Khachatryan is being tried on trumped-up charges of "genocide" and "deportation or forced exile of population" in the village of Meshali on 22 December 1991. He has denied all charges against him, claiming that witness statements have been falsified.
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