AZERI SOLDIER IS NOT SUBJECTED TO TORTURE
Support A1+!According to the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC), Azerbaijani serviceman Rafig Hasanov is not subjected to torture in Armenia as was earlier reported by Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry.
The ICRC refutes that Rafig Hasanov (born in 1989) captured by Armenians on October 8 of this year on the contact line in the Gazakh direction is tortured or threatened in Armenia.
The ICRC was notified by the Armenian authorities of the detention of Mr Rafik Hasanov shortly after his arrest. Since then, in conformity with its mandate, the ICRC has visited him twice in order to monitor his treatment and conditions of detention. The visit unfolded in accordance with the usual working modalities of the ICRC and its delegates interviewed the detainee in private in his mother tongue.
The ICRC offered the detainee the possibility to re-establish contacts with his family, which he accepted by writing a Red Cross Message.
Acting as a neutral intermediary, the ICRC has in the past - upon the authorities of Armenia and Azerbaijan and in accordance with the wish of the individual to return - facilitated repatriation of Prisoners of War and Civilian Internees.
