Kidnapping of patient by Azerbaijan constitutes flagrant violation of international humanitarian law – Armenian MFA

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YEREVAN, JULY 29, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian foreign ministry has described the kidnapping of a Nagorno-Karabakh patient by Azerbaijani border guards as a “flagrant violation of international humanitarian law.”

“Troubled by news that 68-year-old patient, being transported from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia for medical treatment, accompanied by ICRC, was abducted at illegally installed checkpoint by border guard service of Azerbaijan. Abduction of person under international humanitarian protection is flagrant violation of IHL,” Armenian foreign ministry spokesperson Ani Badalyan tweeted.

A senior Armenian diplomat earlier that the whereabouts of the kidnapped patient remain unknown.

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