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Armenian citizen Karen Petrosyan was unarmed, asked for tea,
Azerbaijani villagers say
14:08 ¢ 10.08.14
31-year-old Armenian citizen, resident of Chinari village, Tavush
region, Karen Petrosyan appeared near the house of Röyal Ä°smixan oÄ?lu
Quliyev, a resident of AÄ?bulaq village, Azerbaijan, at about 1:00pm,
on August 7, 2014, and asked for a cup of tea.
In a report by Azer life, Mr Quliyev tells his mother was the first to
see Armenia who lost his way and asked for a cup of tea and
cigarettes.
`I came up to the door and saw his sitting. `Who are you?' I asked.
`Tea, tea,' he answered. Them I told my son an Armenian man was
sitting at the door. Then our neighbors came and asked him questions.
We gave him tea and then the military came.'
Interestingly, the video shows a scuffle between the villagers and the
soldiers who arrived to detain the Armenian man, panorama.am notes.
In a report by the Azerbaijani service of Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty (RFE/RL), Fariza Tagiyeva, who noticed the Armenian man, tells
that the locals asked him why he was afraid and he told them he had
nothing with him, no arms, and his name was Karen.
`I greeted him, searched him, saw his sneakers, he had nothing with
him,' says local resident Niyamat Mammedov. Karen had no arms with him
and he did not offer any resistance. He only had a phone in his hands.
The locals do not trust the official reports by Azerbaijan's Ministry
of Defense, which claims Karen Petrosyan was a `saboteur.' Armenian
posts are too far from the village, which has not even the status of a
borderline village.
`He cannot have come from the [Armenian] posts,' says Fariza Tagiyeva.
On August 8, referring to Azerbaijan's Ministry of Defense,
Azerbaijani mass media reported that Karen Petrosyan had suddenly died
of heart failure. According to the reports, `the autopsy was being
performed at the Ganja center of forensic medicine and pathologic
anatomy.'
Azerbaijan claimed Karen Petrosyan was a `saboteur' and circulated a
video of his interrogation. However, the video clearly showed the man
had been tortured into confessing.
All the facts show Karen Petrosyan was tortured to death in Baku,
whereas autopsy on his body is being performed in Ganja, 372
kilometers away from Baku.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2014/08/10/azers-karen/
Azerbaijani villagers say
14:08 ¢ 10.08.14
31-year-old Armenian citizen, resident of Chinari village, Tavush
region, Karen Petrosyan appeared near the house of Röyal Ä°smixan oÄ?lu
Quliyev, a resident of AÄ?bulaq village, Azerbaijan, at about 1:00pm,
on August 7, 2014, and asked for a cup of tea.
In a report by Azer life, Mr Quliyev tells his mother was the first to
see Armenia who lost his way and asked for a cup of tea and
cigarettes.
`I came up to the door and saw his sitting. `Who are you?' I asked.
`Tea, tea,' he answered. Them I told my son an Armenian man was
sitting at the door. Then our neighbors came and asked him questions.
We gave him tea and then the military came.'
Interestingly, the video shows a scuffle between the villagers and the
soldiers who arrived to detain the Armenian man, panorama.am notes.
In a report by the Azerbaijani service of Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty (RFE/RL), Fariza Tagiyeva, who noticed the Armenian man, tells
that the locals asked him why he was afraid and he told them he had
nothing with him, no arms, and his name was Karen.
`I greeted him, searched him, saw his sneakers, he had nothing with
him,' says local resident Niyamat Mammedov. Karen had no arms with him
and he did not offer any resistance. He only had a phone in his hands.
The locals do not trust the official reports by Azerbaijan's Ministry
of Defense, which claims Karen Petrosyan was a `saboteur.' Armenian
posts are too far from the village, which has not even the status of a
borderline village.
`He cannot have come from the [Armenian] posts,' says Fariza Tagiyeva.
On August 8, referring to Azerbaijan's Ministry of Defense,
Azerbaijani mass media reported that Karen Petrosyan had suddenly died
of heart failure. According to the reports, `the autopsy was being
performed at the Ganja center of forensic medicine and pathologic
anatomy.'
Azerbaijan claimed Karen Petrosyan was a `saboteur' and circulated a
video of his interrogation. However, the video clearly showed the man
had been tortured into confessing.
All the facts show Karen Petrosyan was tortured to death in Baku,
whereas autopsy on his body is being performed in Ganja, 372
kilometers away from Baku.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2014/08/10/azers-karen/