Two Years in a Baku Prison: Facts About Ruben Vardanyan’s ‘Case’ - The Armenian Mirror-Spectator

The Case of Ruben Vardanyan, a Travesty of Justice

Ruben Vardanyan, an Armenia and former minister of state of the autonomous enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, or Artsakh, is under arrest and detained by Azerbaijan, where he is undergoing a “show trial,” the essayist writes. A UN human-rights group, however, has ruled that his case is not an arbitrary detention, despite the chair appearing to have a conflict of interest in the matter. AZERTAC Few people outside the orbit of practitioners and scholars…

Two Years in a Baku Prison: Facts About Ruben Vardanyan’s ‘Case’ - The Armenian Mirror-Spectator

On September 27, 2023, during the forced displacement of thousands of Artsakh Armenians to Armenia, Ruben Vardanyan, a well-known philanthropist and humanitarian, was arrested near the Hakari Bridge by Azerbaijani authorities and transferred to a prison in Baku. Vardanyan had briefly served as State Minister of the Republic of Artsakh from November 4, 2022 to February 23, 2023. After being dismissed from office, he chose to remain in Artsakh in …