Today acting Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan paid visits to the cities of Artashat and Masis. Pashinyan is holding meetings with his supporters (he is holding his election campaign) and visiting provinces with the accompaniment of official state cars and several bodyguards.
The criminal cases against 16 Armenian servicemen, as well as the torture and psychological pressure of other Armenian prisoners of war and captured civilians set a precedent for a malicious violation of international law. It is clear that Azerbaijan instrumentalizes the captured people as political hostages and tools to pursue other goals.
Armenian human rights advocates have published videos on social media about unidentified soldiers who may have been taken captive by the Azerbaijani side, asking to contact them if they recognize the persons or the location in the videos.
Today a representative of the authorities committed another sensational act of obstructing the professional activities of a journalist — Hayk Sargsyan, a nicknamed deputy of the ruling My Step faction of the National Assembly of Armenia, snatched the mobile phone of reporter for Hraparak Armenian Daily AnushDashtents, who was trying to ask him a question, and returned the mobile phone after a while.
