Members Of Azerbaijani Ombudswoman's National Preventive Group Assess Conditions Of Pows
Date
10/15/2022 5:09:42 AM
(MENAFN- AzerNews) By Sabina Mammadli
On October 12, members of the Azerbaijani Ombudswoman's National
Preventive Group conducted monitoring at the Baku Detention Center
of the Penitentiary Service without prior notice.
The visit, instructed by Human Rights Commissioner Sabina
Aliyeva and organized in accordance with the 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, members of the group also received the Armenian
servicemen, who were captured during the September clashes.
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.
Similarly, on October 5, Armenian Investigative Committee's
Press Secretary Vardan Tadevosyan noted that the Armenian
servicemen handed over by Azerbaijan were not subjected to torture
and ill-treatment.
The Ombudsman's Office noted that 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.
The office emphasized that 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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