Azerbaijan Puts Armenian Ex-Leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh

Azerbaijan Begins Trials of Karabakh Ex-Separatists Including Billionaire
Nagorno-Karabakh escaped Baku's control in fighting around the time of the Soviet collapse when hundreds of thousands of ethnic Azeris fled their homes. Baku casts Vardanyan and other former separatist officials as leaders of an illegal armed entity who tried to stop Azerbaijan from reclaiming the territory.
Azerbaijan Puts Armenian Ex-Leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh on Trial
Ex-Moscow investment banker Ruben Vardanyan and 15 other Armenian leaders of the formerly contested Nagorno-Karabakh region went on trial in Azerbaijan on Friday.
Yerevan Silent As Former Karabakh Leaders Go On Trial In Azerbaijan
Armenia’s government pointedly declined to react on Friday to the start of the trials in Azerbaijan of eight former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh and eight other Karabakh Armenian prisoners which human rights activists in Yerevan condemned as a travesty of justice.
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Former Karabakh Official Protests on Eve of Trial in Azerbaijan
Vardanyan served as the number-two official in Karabakh from late 2022 until February 2023. Seven months later, Azerbaijan recaptured the enclave where ethnic Armenians had enjoyed three decades of de facto independence since breaking away from Baku's control in a war that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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