Baku court to hear criminal cases against Armenian citizens next week

The next hearing in the open court proceedings concerning criminal cases against Armenian citizens Arayik Harutyunyan, Arkadi Gukasyan, Bako Sahakyan, Davit Ishkhanyan, David Babayan, Levon Mnatsakanyan, and others is scheduled for next week.

The session will be presided over by Judge Zeynal Aghayev, with Judges Jamal Ramazanov and Anar Rzayev on the panel. Reserve Judge Gunel Samadova will also be present, Caliber.Az reports via local media.

The hearing is set for October 6.

A total of 15 individuals – Arayik Harutyunyan, Arkadiy Gukasyan, Bako Sahakyan, Davit Ishkhanyan, David Manukyan, David Babayan, Levon Mnatsakanyan, Vasily Beglaryan, Erik Gazaryan, David Allahverdyan, Gurgen Stepanyan, Levon Balayan, Madat Babayan, Garik Martirosyan, and Melikset Pashayan – face charges under multiple articles of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan, including:

• 100 – Planning, preparation, initiation of a war of aggression

• 102 – Attack on persons or organisations under international protection 

• 103 – Genocide

• 105 – Extermination of the population

• 106 – Slavery

• 107 – Deportation or forced resettlement of the population

• 109 – Persecution

• 110 – Enforced disappearance of persons

• 112 – Deprivation of liberty in violation of international law

• 113 – Torture

• 114 – Mercenarism

• 115 – Violation of laws and customs of war

• 116 – Violation of international humanitarian law during armed conflicts

• 118 – War robbery

• 120 – Intentional homicide

• 192 – Illegal entrepreneurship

• 214 – Terrorism

• 214-1 – Financing of terrorism

• 218 – Organisation of a criminal community (criminal organisation)

• 228 – Illegal acquisition, transfer, sale, storage, transportation or carrying of weapons, components, ammunition, explosives, or explosive devices

• 270-1 – Acts creating a threat to aviation security

• 277 – Encroachment on the life of a state or public figure

• 278 – Violent seizure of power, violent retention of power, or violent change of the constitutional order of the state

• 279 – Formation of armed formations or groups not provided for by law

By Aghakazim Guliyev