Armenian ombudsman highlights urgency of captives’ return from Azerbaijan at meeting with CoE commissioner

Armenia’s Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) Arman Tatoyan met with Dunja Mijatović, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, in Strasbourg on Friday, his office reported.

The human rights defender presented to the commissioner the urgency of the immediate return of the Armenian captives from Azerbaijan, presenting facts that the Azerbaijani side is holding the captives with the gross violations of international human rights requirements.

Arman Tatoyan presented the gross violations of the rights of the border residents of Armenia by the Azerbaijan...