NGO HEAD: CASES ON TORTURE OF ARMENIANS IN AZERBAIJANI CAPTIVITY SHOULD BE SENT TO ECHR
June 27, 2014 | 12:03
YEREVAN. – The “Against Legal Arbitrariness” NGO expects official
results of the forensic examination of Mamikon Khojoyan to apply to
the European Court of Human Rights.
Technical issues are being solved to draw the necessary documents,
head of the NGO Larisa Alaverdyan told reporters.
As reported earlier, the examination revealed that Armenian captive
was injected petroleum products and psychotropic substances.
“It was confirmed that the old man had been tortured,” Alaverdyan said.
The first Ombudsman recalled that the Armenian side had appealed
to the Azerbaijani authorities to investigate the facts of torture
against Khojoyan. There is still no answer, and the experience of
previous years shows there hardly would be any.
According to Larisa Alaverdyan, it would be right to collect similar
torture cases of Armenians in Azerbaijani captivity, and to submit
to the ECHR with a single package.
Mamikon Khojoyan, 77, a resident of Verin Karmiraghbyur village of
Armenia’s Tavush Region, was taken captive by Azerbaijan on January
28. He suffered from mental illness.
Azerbaijan returned the elderly to Armenia on March 4, and he died
on May 20.