A Yerevan court released Danilcheva, placing her under house arrest in December and set bail at 2,5 million drams. State prosecutors challenged the decision and today the court complied.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross said its representatives visited the detained former leaders of Artsakh and the Armenian captives being held in Baku.
During the visit, which took place in late January and early February, the Armenian prisoners were given the opportunity to contact their families, said ICRC Armenia office spokesperson Zara Amatuni.
It was in early November 2023 that the ICRC representatives had first visited some of the Armenians who were arrested by Azerbaijan after the latter’s military operations in Artsakh on September 19, 2023.
In late September of last year, the Azerbaijani border guards arrested former Minister of State of Artsakh, philanthropist Ruben Vardanyan, former Defense Army commander Levon Mnatsakanyan and former deputy commander Davit Manukyan, former Artsakh Foreign Minister David Babayan, parliament speaker Davit Ishkhanyan, as well as former Artsakh presidents Arkadi Ghukasyan, Bako Sahakyan, and Arayik Harutyunyan; the latter faces life imprisonment in Baku.
Last month, a court in Baku extended the pre-trial prison terms of the former Artsakh leaders by another four months.
YEREVAN (Azatutyun.am)—Authorities in Azerbaijan arrested at the weekend a citizen of the Czech Republic who they claimed illegally entered the country from Armenia.
They said the man not identified by them was first caught by Azerbaijani soldiers deployed along the border with Armenia. They did not specify the section of the border allegedly crossed by the man.
A website close to the Azerbaijani military speculated that the Czech man may work for a Western intelligence service and be connected to the European Union’s monitoring mission deployed along the Armenian side of the long and heavily militarized frontier.
The Czech ambassador to Armenia, Petr Piruncik, categorically denied any such connection on Monday.
“I can only confirm that a Czech citizen was detained in Azerbaijan and remains in detention,” Piruncik told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service. “Our embassy in Baku is trying to get in touch with him.”
The Armenian authorities did not comment on the alleged border crossing as of Monday evening.
The reported arrest came three days after Czech parliament speaker Marketa Pekarova Adamova’s visit to Yerevan during which she said her EU member country will press Baku to resume Western-mediated talks with Yerevan. The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry responded by accusing her of spreading “Armenian lies.”
A French citizen based in Baku was arrested in December amid Azerbaijan’s heightened tensions with France denounced by Baku for siding with Armenia in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. The French Foreign Ministry accused Baku of holding the businessman, Martin Ryan, arbitrarily and demanded his immediate release.
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