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    Emil Lazarian
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Armenian ombudsman highlights urgency of captives’ return from Azerbaijan at meeting with CoE commissioner –

Panorama, Armenia
July 2 2021

Armenia’s Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) Arman Tatoyan met with Dunja Mijatović, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, in Strasbourg on Friday, his office reported.

The human rights defender presented to the commissioner the urgency of the immediate return of the Armenian captives from Azerbaijan, presenting facts that the Azerbaijani side is holding the captives with the gross violations of international human rights requirements.

Arman Tatoyan presented the gross violations of the rights of the border residents of Armenia by the Azerbaijani military servicemen, and the results of the fact-finding activities in Syunik and Gegharkunik Provinces.

During the meeting, the parties also discussed the human rights situation in penitentiary and psychiatric institutions, and other places of deprivation of liberty, as well as issues related to the protection of the rights of children, women and persons with disabilities.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS