Azerbaijan Prosecutor General’s Office intends to ‘bring’ Artsakh President ‘to account’

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Armenia – Feb 15 2022

The Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan has announced that it intends to "catch" and "bring to account" President Arayik Harutyunyan of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh).

"Arayik Harutyunyan, the leader of the so-called 'Nagorno-Karabakh,' will be arrested and interrogated in the near future," said Nemat Avazov, head of the investigation department of the Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani media reported.

Harutyunyan is accused of "four terrorist acts committed in October 2020 against civilians in Ganja."

"The terrorist act was committed from the territory of Armenia. As a result, 26 [Azerbaijani] civilians were killed and 175 were injured. On his social media account on October 4, Arayik Harutyunyan took accountability for the terrorist act. A criminal case—under various articles of the [Azerbaijani] Criminal Code—has been filed on the incident, and Arayik Harutyunyan has been declared wanted. The fact that he has not been called to account so far is temporary. I believe that under the international convention, Harutyunyan will be arrested by the investigative-operative team, and will be interrogated in a short time," Avazov said, according to Azerbaijani media.

To note, the matter is about the military operations which were provoked in the fall of 2020—and due to the military aggression of Azerbaijan and Turkey against Artsakh and Armenia.