“We have facts that tortures and atrocities took place. The Azerbaijani authorities are taking advantage of the fact that people were in a state of panic; there was no charge in their phones. They went to the Red Cross to charge their phones and get in touch, and it was possible to record facts by phone.
Taking advantage of several circumstances, they declare that such cases of torture did not occur, but they did, and we recorded them,” said Arman Tatoyan, Director of the Center for Law and Justice “Tatoyan” Foundation, former Ombudsman.
He mentioned that they are preparing a new report in that regard. “We have had cases where people report that they saw a relative being abused, someone seeing their family being abused, a family member being found murdered, and so on.
Read also
Now, we are carrying out the final confirmation of these facts. The Azerbaijani mass media gave interviews near the Hakari Bridge that the man trying to leave with his family, under the threat of danger, said that we are leaving voluntarily. Still, there are facts outside the mass media that the Azerbaijani military said: don’t come back here, don’t dare to think about coming to Artsakh, we will kill you.
“We have recorded when they saw that people had a cross, they had an image resembling a cross, took it from their hand, people say that “I wrapped it in my clothes so that they could not see that I have a cross near me.”
We have facts that when people were in a dark green, military-like car, for example, a “Ural” car, Azerbaijani armed officers took them from their hands. They were their cars, but they took off people’s clothes and took them from their hands. People had to find another way to get out.” Tatoyan said that taking all this into account, we should prevent this because Aliyev’s speeches full of hatred are now towards Armenia; it seems they have finished one thing and moved on to another.
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
