Armenian defectors go on hunger strike – Azeri TV
ANS TV, Baku
17 May 04
Roman Teryan and Artur Apresyan, Armenian citizens who fled from
[Armenian President] Robert Kocharyan’s regime and arrived in
Azerbaijan, started a hunger strike today. They asked international
organizations for political asylum in a third country.
Teryan and Apresyan, who are being held in the Azerbaijani National
Security Ministry’s remand centre, are protesting against the
indifference that the UN High Commissioner for Refugees’ Baku
office has shown to their plight and a failure to send them to a
third country.
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