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Gurgen Stepanyan, born in 1987, was detained by Azerbaijani forces in late September 2023 following Azerbaijan’s military assault on Nagorno-Karabakh. He is currently in preventive detention and is being tried before the Baku Military Court alongside 14 other Armenian citizens.
He is accused of involvement in a criminal organization under multiple articles of Azerbaijan’s Criminal Code, including charges related to genocide, mercenarism, and terrorism.
According to pro-government Azerbaijani media, during hearings in 2025 Stepanyan stated that he was conscripted into military service as a citizen of the Republic of Armenia in 2005–2006 and served in a unit stationed in Hadrut, responsible for maintaining posts in the Fuzuli district. He completed his military service in November 2007 and returned to Jermuk, Armenia.
According to testimony read in court in September 2025, from January until 20 September 2023 Stepanyan served at a post in the Askeran District alongside Garik Martirosyan, Melikset Pashayan, Erik Ghazaryan, and David Allahverdiyan—other Armenian citizens prosecuted in the same collective case. During the same period, a new lawyer was appointed for him, to which he raised no objections. He reportedly confirmed his statements given during both the preliminary investigation and the court proceedings, with minor exceptions.
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At the court hearing on 13 November 2025, the prosecution requested a 16-year prison sentence.
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