Hearing testimony of victims, their legal representatives at Armenian criminal Vagif Khachatryan's trial ends-UPDATED-2-VIDEO

Vagif Cherkezovich Khachatryan

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# 01 November 2023 12:42 (UTC +04:00)

Another court hearing of the criminal case against Vagif Cherkezovich Khachatryan, one of the members of the illegal Armenian armed formations, which committed a massacre in the village of Meshali of Azerbaijan’s Khojaly district on December 22, 1991, was continued in Baku, APA reports.

Chaired by judge of the Baku Military Court Zeynal Aghayev, the process heard testimonies of the victims.

In the process, the testimonies by the victims Ali Mehraliyev and Sadagat Ismayilova, who appealed to the court by telegram, were announced.

The hearing testimonies of the victims and the legal representatives of the victims in the criminal case ended.

An employee of Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) who is currently serving in Jabrayil could not testify in the trial.

The process will continue on November 6.

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Another court hearing of the criminal case against Vagif Cherkezovich Khachatryan, one of the members of the illegal Armenian armed formations, which committed a massacre in the village of Meshali of Azerbaijan’s Khojaly district on December 22, 1991, has started in Baku, APA reports.

Chaired by judge of the Baku Military Court Zeynal Aghayev, the process hears testimonies of the victims.

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Another court hearing of the criminal case against Vagif Cherkezovich Khachatryan, one of the members of the illegal Armenian armed formations, which committed a massacre in the village of Meshali of Azerbaijan’s Khojaly district on December 22, 1991, is held in Baku, APA reports.

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Another court hearing of the criminal case against Vagif Cherkezovich Khachatryan, one of the members of the illegal Armenian armed formations, which committed a massacre in the village of Meshali of Azerbaijan’s Khojaly district on December 22, 1991, will be held in Baku, APA reports.

Vagif Cherkezovich Khachatryan is charged under the article 103 (Genocide) and article 107 (Deportation or forced exile of population) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

A criminal group with the participation of Vagif Khachatryan as part of armed formations, not provided for by the legislation of Azerbaijan, comprising of the Armenian nationalists living in the Karabakh economic region, as well as arrived from the Republic of Armenia, committed genocide against the local Azerbaijani population in the village of Meshali, Khojaly district on December 22, 1991 ( on the territory of the former Asgaran district). As a result of these crimes of genocide, persecution, expulsion, armed conflicts committed against the Azerbaijani population in violation of international humanitarian law, a total of 27 people were intentionally killed, 21 people received injuries of varying degrees of severity, two villagers were taken hostage, 340 people out of 81 family households were expelled from their places of permanent residence to other territories of the Republic of Azerbaijan, resulting in material damage of total amount of 13,568,060 manats to the village residents, and 130,800 manats to the state.

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