UN rights chief calls for immediate release of Armenians arbitrarily detained in Azerbaijan

Armenian Human Rights Defender Anahit Manasyan welcomes the statement of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk on Armenian prisoners held in Azerbaijan, her office reported on Tuesday.

At the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday, Turk called for the immediate release of “all those arbitrarily detained in Azerbaijan, including ethnic Armenians".

He also stated that their “fair trial rights must be respected fully”.