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8 December 2016 - 11:53 AMT

ICRC representatives visit Armenian hostage in Baku

Representatives of the Baku branch of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have visited Arsen Baghdasaryan, a Nagorno Karabakh citizen, currently held hostage in Azerbaijan.

Zara Amatuni from the ICRC's Yerevan office said that Baghdasaryan and his family exchanged information through the ICRC employees.

A former Armenian serviceman, who crossed the border in December 2014, Baghdasaryan was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment in Azerbaijan.