Azerbaijani hostage taken from Yerevan to Shusha

Baku/Olaylar.az

Shahbaz Guliyev, kept hostage by Armenian Armed Forces, was taken to Shusha from Yerevan, where he was previously transferred for treatment, Azerbaijan's State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons has stated. The process of returning Shahbaz Guliyev to Shusha was carried out on Oct. 16, 2017, according to the source.

Guliyev together with another Azerbaijani, Dilgam Asgarov, is kept hostage by the Armenian military in the occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan for more than three years.

They were detained by the Armenian Armed Forces in July 2014 while visiting their native lands and graves of loved ones in the occupied Azerbaijani region of Kalbajar. Moreover, Armenian forces killed the third Azerbaijani, Hasan Hasanov.