The European Court of Human Rights has released the verdicts on the cases of Mamikon Khojoyan, a resident of Verin Karmiraghbyur village, Tavush region, and Karen Petrosyan, a resident of Chinari village, who were captured and tortured in Azerbaijan in 2014.

We are informed about this from the official website of the ECHR .

The court upheld the claims of the Armenian side and found Azerbaijan guilty. The ECHR obliged Azerbaijan to pay 40,000 euros in each case within three months.

The verdict states that Azerbaijan has violated the Armenian captives’ rights to life, to freedom from torture and non-discrimination, liberty and personal immunity.

Mamikon Khojoyan, 77, was captured in January 2014, and returned to Armenia two months later, on 4 March, through the mediation of the International Committee of the Red Cross. He died some time later. The forensic medical examination had shown that Khojoyan’s blood contained petroleum and psychotropic drug “Apaurin”. The cause of his death was a general intoxication of the organism.

Karen Petrosyan, born in 1981, a resident of Chinari, got lost in 2014, crossed the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and appeared in an Azerbaijani village. He was arrested by the Azerbaijani side and later announced that he had died unexpectedly of “acute cardio-pulmonary and myocardial failure.”