News - Karabakh resident Vagif Khachatryan, abducted by Azerbaijan, sends letter from Baku to family

Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) resident Vagif Khachatryan, who was abducted by Azerbaijan on July 29, sent a letter to his family, from Azerbaijani capital Baku on August 30. Tsovinar Khachatryan, one of his daughters, told Armenian News-NEWS.am about this. "He had written: ‘I'm thinking about you, I'm still alive, stay well, say hello to everyone.’ Now we know that he takes medicine in the morning and in the evening. They say his health is normal. The Red Cross visits [him] once a month, the time for the second visit has not yet come," said Tsovinar Khachatryan. On July 29, the representatives of the border guard service of Azerbaijan abducted, from the Azerbaijani "checkpoint" illegally located in the Berdzor (Lachin) corridor, 68-year-old Artsakh resident Vagif Khachatryan, who was being transferred from Artsakh to Armenia, by way of the International Committee of the Red Cross, to undergo surgery. Subsequently, the General Prosecutor's Office of Azerbaijan announced that Khachatryan was "indicted" back in 2013, a decision was made to arrest him, and that "an international search was declared" in the same year. Baku accuses the detained Artsakh citizen of "genocide, deportation of Azerbaijanis."