The previous head of the Authorities of Nagorno -Karabakh Ruben Vardanyan suspended a starvation strike, which he introduced in opposition to the background of the trial in Azerbaijan in his felony case. He’s about this reported His household in an audio picture from jail in Baku.
The starvation strike of Vardanyan lasted 23 days – from February 19. He referred to as it “a response to gross violations of the norms of worldwide and Azerbaijani procedural regulation” and an try to attract consideration to the injustice of his trial.
“I had a number of objectives why I introduced a starvation strike: to indicate that there was no court docket, however there’s a trial; Present that this isn’t judged by me, however by all of the Armenians and the state itself; And to indicate what value it was essential to pay all those that could be glad to remain of their souls and stay in Artsakh, and to not depart, ”the brand new enchantment of Vardanyan, widespread on March 13.
Ruben Vardanyan is the previous proprietor of the Troika Dialog funding firm, the founding father of the Skolkovo enterprise college. He was included within the checklist of the richest individuals in Russia based on Forbes. In September 2022, Vardanyan introduced that he had deserted Russian citizenship and moved to Nagorny Karabakh. He was the pinnacle of the federal government of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic from November 2022 to February 2023.
On September 27, 2023, the Border Service of Azerbaijan detained Ruben Vardanyan when he tried to go away Nagorno -Karabakh to Armenia. He was charged with a number of articles, together with the financing of terrorism and participation within the creation and actions of unlawful armed teams.
Because the finish of September 2023, he has been beneath arrest in Baku. On April 19, 2024, Vardanyan first introduced a starvation strike, which he, authorised, started on April 5. On April 25, Vardanyan accomplished the starvation strike. In June, his household stated that Vardanyan was tortured in a pre -trial detention heart throughout a starvation strike. In January 2025, shortly earlier than the primary assembly, Ruben Vardanyan stated that his investigation falsified paperwork in his case.
