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Levon Balayan (born 1978) was detained by Azerbaijani forces on 20 September 2023 during Azerbaijan’s military operations in Nagorno-Karabakh. He is currently in preventive detention and is being tried at the Baku Military Court along with 14 other Armenian citizens.
He is accused of “involvement in a criminal organization during specific periods” under at least 24 articles of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan, including Article 103 (genocide), Article 114 (mercenarism), and Article 214 (terrorism).
According to open sources (pro-government Azerbaijani media), his preliminary testimony was presented in court on 5 September 2025 and was largely confirmed during the hearing. On 13 November 2025, the prosecution requested that the court sentence Levon Balayan to 17 years of imprisonment.

















































