“Azatutyun”. Some of the 23 Armenian prisoners held in Azerbaijan have tried to commit suicide recently, an Armenian lawyer campaigning for their release said on Wednesday.
Siranush Sahakian said those prisoners claimed to have tried to take their lives in phone calls with their families in Armena. She refused to name them, saying only that they do not include any of the eight former political and military leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh standing trial in Azerbaijan.
“There were such repeated attempts after Red Cross visits [of the prisoners] stopped,” Sahakian told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service.
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