The Court of Appeal of Baku has left unchanged the judgments made on February 5 regarding the former military and political leaders of Nagorno Karabakh and other Armenians illegally detained in Baku.
Let’s remind that on February 5, 2026, the Baku court sentenced the Armenian prisoners to prison on false charges. The Azerbaijani court has sentenced former NK President Arayik Harutyunyan, former defense army commander Levon Mnatsakanyan, former defense army deputy commander Davit Manukyan, former NK parliament speaker Davit Ishkhanyan and former foreign minister Davit Babayan to life imprisonment. Former NK presidents Arkady Ghukasyan and Bako Sahakyan were sentenced to 20 years in prison.
The other illegally detained persons: Madat Babayan, Melikset Pashayan, Garik Martirosyan, Davit Allahverdyan, Levon Balayan, Vasili Beglaryan, Gurgen Stepanyan and Erik Ghazaryan were sentenced to 15 to 19 years in prison.
It should be noted that the fabricated criminal case against the former State Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh Ruben Vardanyan was investigated in separate proceedings. On February 17, it became known that the Baku court sentenced Ruben Vardanyan to 20 years in prison.
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