21 Aug 2014 13:01

Azeri convicts ready to fight in Nagorno-Karabakh

BAKU. Aug 21 (Interfax) - A number of convicts serving time at the Azeri Justice Ministry's Penitentiary Service facility have asked President Ilham Aliyev to take into consideration their wish to fight for freeing the occupied Azeri lands, the Penitentiary Service reported.

"We ask you to take into consideration our readiness to fight on the frontline," 46 convicts said in their address to the president.

The convicts supported the policy of the Azeri president and said many of them were combat capable youths "ready for fight for the liberation of the occupied Azeri lands," the service noted.