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Armenians forcibly took Azerbaijani driver to Yerevan and tortured him

29 October 2009 13:25 (UTC +04:00)

Driver Alasgar Orujaliyev, who was taken to Armenia, told APA. According to him, on October 14, he left for Tbilisi to find a job in cargo trucks: â€œI left Tbilisi for Georgia-Armenia border to have a talk with cargo truck drivers. I saw cargo trucks in the neutral area of Georgia-Armenia border zones. Meanwhile, two persons came up to me and took interests in the reasons of my arrival in an incomprehensible Azerbaijani language. I told them that I wanted to talk to drivers and find a job in cargo trucks. They told me Azerbaijanis might freely pass both neutral zone and Armenian territory and they offered it to meâ€.

Alasgar Orujaliyev accepted the offer: â€œI accepted the offer and crossed the Georgian border crossing point and arrived in the neutral zone. When I wanted to come up to the drivers standing in the neutral zone, an unknown man called me from the Armenian border crossing point and wanted to see my passport. When he realized that I am an Azerbaijani citizen, he forcibly took me to the territory of Armeniaâ€. According to Alasgar Orujaliyev, the event took place on October 15 and he was kept in the administrative building of the Armenian border crossing point for two days: â€œFurther, they took me to Yerevan by car. And they kept me in a cellar of the nine-storey building in Yerevan for a week. During this period, Armenians offered me to stay in Armenia many times. They told me if I agree with it, they will provide him with an apartment. They forced me to write negative opinions about Azerbaijani government, state and OSCE. They even forced me to write many things about corruption in Azerbaijan. I was undergone tortures during this period. They gave me a liquid like coffee to drink. When I drank it, I lost consciousness and knew nothing about what I was doing. And Armenians recorded what I was speaking at that timeâ€.

Despite all pressures and tortures, Alasgar Orujaliyev noted that he had noted accepted the proposals of Armenians: â€œI told them over and over again that I am a worker and Iâ€™ve no notion of the things and I want to return to Azerbaijan. On October 22, Armenians brought me to the Georgian border crossing point. I appealed to the Embassy of Azerbaijani as soon as I arrived in Georgia and spoke everything about it. Iâ€™m seriously shocked and depressed and I donâ€™t know what to doâ€.