Ex-Karabakh official held by Azerbaijan declares second hunger strike amid terrorism trial

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Ex-Karabakh official held by Azerbaijan declares second hunger strike amid terrorism trial

Ruben Vardanyan, a former top official in the ethnic Armenian administration of Nagorno-Karabakh which Azerbaijan retook in 2023, announced a second hunger strike on Wednesday in protest against his criminal trial in Baku.

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Ruben Vardanyan Goes on Hunger Strike in Baku Prison

Former Artsakh State Minister Ruben Vardanyan, who is currently on trial on trumped charges in a military court in Baku, announced that he has begun a hunger strike at the prison, in which he is currently locked to protest the “staged judicial process” being waged against him. “Yesterday, I decided to protest by declaring a hunger strike against the judicial farce being carried out against me. This is my response to the blatant violations of Aze…

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Ruben Vardanyan, former State Minister of the unrecognized Nagorno Karabakh Republic, who has been in a Baku prison since autumn 2023, has gone on a hunger strike. This was reported on his telegram channel. The politician called this decision a protest “against a judicial farce”.

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BREAKING: Armenian Political Prisoner Ruben Vardanyan Begins Hunger Strike to Protest Rigged Trial in Azerbaijan

Today, on February 19, 2025, Armenian businessman, philanthropist, and now political prisoner Ruben Vardanyan told his family that he will no longer cooperate in the ongoing sham trial against him and other Armenian prisoners due to Azerbaijan’s persistent violations of international law during his trial and, in protest of these violations, will go on a hunger strike, reports Zartonk Media.After more than 500 days in arbitrary and illegal detent…

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Another Azeri Accusation Against Ruben Vardanyan Revealed - The Armenian Mirror-Spectator

By Ruzanna Stepanian YEREVAN (Azatutyun.am) — The long list of accusations leveled by Azerbaijan against Armenian businessman and philanthropist Ruben Vardanyan includes a plot to assassinate Azerbaijani diplomats serving abroad. Azerbaijani government-controlled media outlets revealed the extraordinary charge in their coverage of February 13th’s court hearing in Vardanyan’s ongoing trial in Baku. They reported no evidence in support of it. They…