The Armenian earlier taken hostage has been killed in Azerbaijan
The resident of Armenia’s Chinarli village Karen Petrosyan who had crossed the border into Azerbaijan and was taken hostage has died, as reported by Azerbaijani news media.
Haqqin.az cites the announcement of Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Defence according to which Karen Petrosyan has died of heart failure in Baku. The same source also notes that the causes of death are being investigated in Gyanja regional centre of forensic investigation.
According to the source the International Committee of Red Cross has been informed about Karen Petrosyan’s death.
It must be noted that in Azerbaijan Karen Petrosyan was presented as a saboteur.
Yesterday a video footage was released in which Karen Petrosyan was supposedly being interrogated. The video only makes it clear that he had been subjected to grave torture and was giving positive answers to Azerbaijani soldiers’ imperative questions.
Armenian mass media had reported that Karen Petrosyan was a resident of Chinarli village and yesterday had entered the neighbouring village forest to fetch wood. Most probably Petrosyan lost his way and found himself on Azerbaijan’s territory. This was also confirmed by the information initially spread in Azerbaijani mass media. Hazzin.az namely wrote http://haqqin.az/news/27741 that Karen Petrosyan had knocked on one of the doors of an Aglubar village house and asked for tea. After that the villagers caught him and handed him to army officers.
There are all the reasons to conclude that Karen Petrosyan died as a result of torture he was subjected to by Azerbaijani soldiers during the night, which means that they killed him in Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Defence. It is strange that according to the received information he died in Baku while the autopsy is being conducted in Gyanja.