Azerbaijan given additional time by ECHR for providing information about Armenian prisoners of war

YEREVAN, September 26. /ARKA/. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has given Azerbaijan additional time to provide information about Armenian prisoners.

"In response to a number of requests filed by the Armenian government to the ECHR demanding interim measures against Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani government requested additional time from the European Court to provide full information about the prisoners of war. The request was granted by the Court. The new deadline for Azerbaijan is September 29," the office of Armenia's representative for international legal issues reported on its Facebook.

Earlier it was reported that Armenia filed several lawsuits against Azerbaijan to the European Court of Human Rights, including those for providing information about the condition of Armenian prisoners and demanding that their rights be guaranteed.

The Armenian side is currently gathering evidence of other widespread damages, caused by Azerbaijani aggression against Armenia to present as part of the ongoing international legal processes. -

On September 13, Azerbaijan launched an unprovoked and unjustified military aggression against Armenia. Using heavy artillery, Multiple Rocket Launchers and combat UAVs, the Azerbaijani armed forces shelled 36 residential areas and communities, including towns of Goris, Jermuk, Vardenis, Kapan, Geghamasar deep within the sovereign territory of Armenia.

The Azerbaijani attack deliberately targeted civilian population and vital civilian infrastructures.

More than 7600 persons, mostly women and elderly people, among them 1437 children and 99 persons with disabilities were displaced.

Around 192 houses, 3 hotels, 2 schools, 1 medical facility, partially or completely destroyed. 7 electrical infrastructures, 5 water infrastructures, 3 gas pipelines, 1 bridge were damaged. As a result of the aggression, the number of victims and missing persons at the moment exceeded 207, among them 3 civilians were killed and 2 civilians are missing. 293 servicemen and 8 civilians were wounded, at least 20 servicemen were captured.

There are evidences of cases of torture, mutilation of captured or already dead servicemen, numerous instances of extra-judicial killings, and ill-treatment of Armenian prisoners of war, as well as humiliating treatment of the bodies.

The dead bodies of Armenian female military personnel were mutilated and then “proudly” video-recorded with particular cruelty by the Azerbaijani servicemen. The videos featuring such gruesome war crimes and crimes against humanity are being shared and praised on Azerbaijani social media by individual users. -0-