Armenia’s ombudsman provides additional information to int l organizations on urgency of POWs’ repatriation
In an official letter to the OSCE chairperson-in-office, the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, the Council of Europe, the UN commissioners for human rights and other international bodies on Monday, Armenia’s Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) Arman Tatoyan provided additional information on the urgency of the return of Armenian prisoners of war (POWs) from Azerbaijan, the real situation, the protection of their rights and missing persons.
“The letter primarily indicates that there is an ongoing open armed conflict. From the point of view of international [humanitarian] law, this means that regardless of whether or not they were taken prisoner after the November 9, 2020 tripartite declaration, they are prisoners of war, captives; they should be released immediately. This issue is artificially delayed by openly abusing legal processes, presenting them as terrorists and in viol
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