Ruben Vardanyan’s Wife Wants Red Cross to Clarify Legal Status of Armenian Prisoners in Azerbaijan

Ruben Vardanyan’s Wife Wants Red Cross to Clarify Legal Status of Armenian Prisoners in Azerbaijan

Veronika Zonabend, the wife of Ruben Vardanyan, has addressed a letter to International Committee of the Red Cross President Mirjana Spoljaric Egger on the legal status of the Armenian prisoners in Azerbaijan. Vardanyan, who was the former state minister of Artsakh, was sentenced to a 20-year prison term, after a staged sham trial in Baku found him guilty of various trumped up charges. The government of Azerbaijan effectively banned the ICRC fro…

Ruben Vardanyan Was Not Permitted to Address Azerbaijan’s Ombudsperson – Family Statement

YEREVAN — The website www.freearmenianprisoners.com, run by the family on Ruben Vardanyan, issued a press release on March 13 about the humanitarian’s plight during his illegal incarceration in Baku: According to the statement, during a phone call with his family, Ruben Vardanyan attempted to deliver a public address to Azerbaijan’s Ombudsperson, Sabina Aliyeva. The call was forcibly terminated. This address was an act of last resort: over the p…