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Armenian-captured Azerbaijani soldier Rafig Hasanov sentenced to 13 years in prison

20 August 2010 15:03 (UTC +04:00)

The court headed by Judge Zeynal Aghayev drew a conclusion that Rafig Rahman Hasanovâ€™s crime had been proved. He has been sentenced to 13 years in prison.

According to charge, Soldier of Azerbaijani Defense Ministryâ€™s military unit, Rafig Rahman Hasanov, 21, was captured by Armenian servicemen on the line of contact in Gazakh region on October 8, 2008. He committed crimes shown in the article # 274 (State betray, that is deliberately action committed by a citizen of the Azerbaijan Republic to detriment of the sovereignty, territorial integrity, state security or defensibility of the Azerbaijan Republic: changeover to enemy side, espionage, distribution of the state secret to foreign state, rendering assistance to a foreign state, foreign organization or their representatives in realization of hostile activity against the Azerbaijan Republic) of the Criminal Code.

On April 7 of this year Hasanov was handed over to Azerbaijan. The process was realized on Eraskhavan-Sederek territory of Armenia-Azerbaijan border.