Azerbaijani Ombudsman's National Preventive Group Visits Armenian Pows
Date
10/12/2022 3:23:19 PM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 12. Following the
instruction of Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman) of
Azerbaijan Sabina Aliyeva, members of the Azerbaijani Ombudsman's
National Preventive Group visited the Baku Detention Center of the
Penitentiary Service without prior notice, the Ombudsman's Office
told on October 12.
According to the Office, the visit, organized in accordance with
Optional protocol to the UN convention against torture and other
cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment and the
Constitutional Law 'On the Commissioner for Human Rights
(Ombudsman) of the Republic of Azerbaijan', was aimed to study the
detention conditions and treatment of detainees.
During the visit, which had doctors and psychologists of the NPG
present, the Armenian servicemen who were captured during the
September clashes were also received. Confidential conversations
established the provision of each POW with medical care,
correspondence, and access to information (television, etc.). The
detained expressed no dissatisfaction with the conditions of
detention and treatment.
Press Secretary of the Investigative Committee of Armenia Vardan
Tadevosyan made the remarks on October 5, 2022 that the Armenian
servicemen handed over by Azerbaijan were not subjected to torture
and ill-treatment. This once again confirms that Azerbaijan, unlike
Armenia, respects the rights of detainees and complies with
international law principles.
Azerbaijan remained committed to the norms of international law
in the first and second Karabakh Wars as well. However, Armenia, on
the contrary, infringed upon the rights of two Azerbaijanis who
were held hostage in Armenia for more than six years. Their
communication with family members was limited, while the Armenian
captives in Azerbaijan were allowed to maintain close contact with
their family members as part of the visits of members of the
Azerbaijani Ombudsman's National Preventive Group.
Despite repeated appeals over the fate of 3,890 Azerbaijanis who
went missing during the first Karabakh war, Armenia still evades
providing necessary information, thus violating the requirements of
international humanitarian law.
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