Azeri men arrested in breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh indicted
YEREVAN. July 23 (Interfax) - The Prosecutor General's Office of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has formally charged the Azeri citizens who infiltrated its territory.
The charges include espionage, the crossing by an organized-crime unit of the protected NKR border without permission, kidnapping, use of a firearm against an underage person, illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition, homicide involving kidnapping by an organized-crime group motivated by ethnic hatred, and an attempted murder of two and more persons by an organized-crime group motivated by ethnic hatred, a spokesperson for the NKR Prosecutor General's Office told Interfax on Wednesday.
On July 14 the NKR defense ministry reported the completion of an operation to disarm an Azeri subversive group. During the arrest of one of the saboteurs on July 12 an Armenian army major was killed. Also, a woman was injured in the head and is currently being treated in hospital in Yerevan.
The Armenian Defense Ministry told Interfax earlier that members of the Azeri subversive group are not regarded as prisoners of war and will be tried according to the local laws.