Testimonies heard at Ruben Vardanyan’s trial in Azerbaijan

[ad_1] BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 20. The adjudication course of regarding Armenian citizen Ruben Vardanyan, accused beneath articles of the Felony Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan associated to crimes towards peace and humanity, struggle crimes, terrorism, financing of terrorism, and different critical crimes, continued on 20 November, Development experiences.

The open courtroom session on the Baku Navy Courtroom was held beneath the chairmanship of Choose Zeynal Agayev, with judges Anar Rzayev and Jamal Ramazanov on the panel (reserve decide Gunel Samadova). The accused was supplied with an interpreter within the language he understands (Russian) alongside a state-funded protection lawyer.

Choose Agayev launched the panel of judges, the prosecutors upholding the state accusation, the interpreters, and others to the victims and authorized successors of victims collaborating within the listening to for the primary time and defined their rights and obligations beneath the regulation.

The testimonies of the victims had been then heard.

Victims Anar Jafarov and Rashad Abbasov acknowledged that within the path of Marzili village in Azerbaijan's Aghdam district, the automobile they had been travelling in hit a mine planted by the enemy, and so they incurred a number of traumas as a consequence of the detonation.

In response to questions from state prosecutor Vusal Abdullayev, sufferer Feyruz Musayev mentioned that whereas finishing up engineering works with a bulldozer close to Zar village in Kalbajar district, the equipment got here beneath machine-gun fireplace from the enemy. Whereas he sustained no private accidents, the gear was incapacitated and deemed inoperative.

Sufferer Israil Babayev acknowledged that he was wounded on account of an enemy provocation within the Kalbajar-Zod path.

One other sufferer, Safar Gasimov, mentioned that a number of individuals had been killed by fireplace opened by remnants of the Armenian armed forces and unlawful Armenian armed teams. On the similar time, Kamal Javadli, Namat Baghirov, Amrah Hajizada, and a number of other others sustained numerous bodily accidents.

In response to questions from state prosecutor Tarana Mammadova, sufferer Elgun Talibov acknowledged that within the space of Charaktar village within the Aghdara district, he and Rovshan Mustafayev had been wounded by fireplace opened by remnants of the Armenian armed forces and unlawful Armenian armed teams.

Sufferer Muzamil Orujov mentioned he was injured within the Kalbajar district by fireplace from weapons of assorted calibers utilized by the enemy.

Victims Maarif Abbasov, Ramiq Hasanov, and Rustam Rustamli acknowledged that they had been injured within the space of Daghyurd village in the Khojaly district on account of enemy provocation. Abbasov famous that he and Mahammad Karimov had been wounded when a mortar shell fired by the enemy exploded close by. Hasanov sustained accidents as a results of a proximate detonation of an artillery projectile. Sergey Heybatov was killed in the identical space.

In response to questions from Tughay Rahimli, assistant to the Prosecutor Basic on particular assignments, sufferer Vusal Abbasov mentioned he was shot within the leg by sniper fireplace from the enemy in Khankandi metropolis.

Sufferer Fagan Valiyev acknowledged that whereas within the Aghdam district, regardless of the medical automobile he was in bearing distinctive markings, it was hit by a rocket projectile fired by the enemy, and he was wounded.

Ahliyar Muradov mentioned he was injured in a forested space of Aghdam district when a mortar shell fired by remnants of the Armenian armed forces and unlawful Armenian armed teams exploded close by.

Sufferer Elyas Mammadli acknowledged that within the space of Khanabad village in Khojaly district, he, Nazim Agayev, and Rashmi Hummatov sustained numerous bodily accidents when a mortar shell fired by the enemy exploded close by.

In response to questions from state prosecutor Fuad Musayev, sufferer Joshgun Nasirov mentioned that within the space of Khanabad village in Khojaly district, he, Ahliyar Muradov, and Elgun Ismayilli had been wounded by fireplace opened by remnants of the Armenian armed forces and unlawful Armenian armed teams.

Sufferer Eldar Huseynov acknowledged that a number of individuals, together with himself, had been wounded, and a number of other others had been killed when an artillery shell fired by the enemy within the path of Farrukh top in Khojaly exploded.

In response to questions from Nasir Bayramov, head of the division on the Prosecutor Basic’s Workplace liable for upholding the state accusation, sufferer Rajab Shukurov mentioned that in the world of Khanabad village in Khojaly district, he, Khagani Guliyev, and Turan Hasanli had been injured when mortar shells fired by the enemy exploded close by.

The judicial proceedings progressed with the scrutiny of evidentiary supplies and ancillary documentation pertinent to the legal file.

The subsequent courtroom listening to has been scheduled for 21 November.

Ruben Vardanyan faces a number of costs beneath the Felony Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan, together with Articles 100.1, 100.2 (planning, making ready, initiating, and waging a struggle of aggression), 107 (deportation and compelled displacement of the inhabitants), 109 (persecution), 110 (forcible disappearance of individuals), 112 (deprivation of liberty opposite to worldwide regulation), 113 (torture), 114.1 (mercenary exercise), 115.2 (violation of the legal guidelines and customs of warfare), 116.0.1, 116.0.2, 116.0.10, 116.0.11, 116.0.16, 116.0.18 (violation of worldwide humanitarian regulation norms throughout an armed battle), 120.2.1, 120.2.3, 120.2.4, 120.2.7, 120.2.11, 120.2.12 (intentional homicide), 29.120.2.1, 29.120.2.3, 29.120.2.4, 29.120.2.7, 29.120.2.11, 29.120.2.12 (tried intentional homicide), 192.3.1 (unlawful entrepreneurship), 214.2.1, 214.2.3, 214.2.4 (terrorism), 214-1 (financing of terrorism), 218.1, 218.2 (creation of a legal group), 228.3 (unlawful acquisition, switch, sale, storage, transportation, and possession of firearms, ammunition, explosives, and gadgets), 270-1.2, 270-1.4 (acts threatening aviation security), 278.1 (forcible seizure or retention of energy, forcible change of the constitutional construction of the state), 279.1, 279.2, 279.3 (creation of armed formations not supplied for by regulation), and 318.2 (unlawful crossing of the state border of the Republic of Azerbaijan).