Azerbaijan's State Security Service (DTX) said on November 20 that it detained another ethnic Armenian from Nagorno-Karabakh, Rashid Beglarian, accusing him of atrocities against Azerbaijani civilians during the war over the then-breakaway region in 1992. According to DTX, Beglarian was charged with illegal freedom deprivation, torture, violating the laws of war, organizing illegal armed groups, and illegal border crossing. Less than two weeks earlier, Vagif Khachatrian, also an ethnic Armenian from Karabakh, was handed 15 years in prison in Baku on charges of genocide and forced deportation of civilians in 1991, which he vehemently denied. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service, click here.
Baku Detains Another Karabakh-Armenian Accused Of 1992 Massacre
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