Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
Feb 2 2007
AZERI SOLDIER ARRESTED AFTER RETURN FROM ARMENIAN CAPTIVITY
Baku, 2 February: A soldier of the Azerbaijani army, Vusal Qaracayev,
captured by Armenians on 7 December [2006] has been arrested, APA
news agency has learnt from the republic’s Military Prosecutor’s
Office. According to this report, criminal proceedings against
Qaracayev have been instituted at the investigative department for
serious crimes of the Military Prosecutor’s Office under Articles 274
(high treason) and 338.1 (abuse of rules of performance of military
service) of the Criminal Code. An investigation is under way.
We should note that Qaracayev, born in 1988, was called up this year
[as published, actually last year] by the Balakan district military
conscription office [northern Azerbaijan]. He was captured on 7
December on the territory of Agdam [district partly occupied by
Armenia] and freed on 23 December [2006].