Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Arbitrary arrest and detention" in English language version.
More than a hundred Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, 23 of whom are formally identified and therefore personally defended by lawyers, are still imprisoned to this day, in arbitrary, degrading and inhuman conditions of detention... The illegal and brutal detention of Armenian civilians and prisoners of war does not date back to September 2023, or even to the 2020 war. Azerbaijan is regularly challenged by the European Court of Human Rights on this issue.
Ian Moss, a former chief of staff for the State Department's Guantanamo envoy, insisted that, 'We wanted these individuals after they were released to have a fresh start in life. It wasn't part of the deal that they be incarcerated.'
The trials involve eight political and military leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh which was ethnically cleansed by Azerbaijan's ten-month-long blockade followed by military aggression in September of 2023, when 120,000 Armenians were forced to flee to Armenia.