GENEVA (Panorama.am) — On Monday, March 3, at the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk called for the immediate release of “all those arbitrarily detained in Azerbaijan, including ethnic Armenians.”
He also stated that their “fair trial rights must be respected fully”.
He said, “I am following closely the ongoing peace negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the hope that they will lead to a process of truth-telling, healing, and reconciliation. We stand ready to support. All those arbitrarily detained in Azerbaijan, including ethnic Armenians, must be released immediately, and fair trial rights must be respected fully.”
Armenian Human Rights Defender Anahit Manasyan welcomed the statement.
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