Criminal prosecution of Vagif Khachatryan, detained in connection with the events in the village of the Khojalinsky district of 1991, complies with the norms of international and national law.
This was stated on Tuesday by the head of the Department of the Prosecutor General’s Office, Makhir Abbasov.
He stated that after the 44-day Patriotic War, a number of events occurred from a historical and legal point of view. In the criminal proceedings of Azerbaijan, persons who committed crimes against citizens, peace and humanity, war crimes were prosecuted and court sentences that entered into legal force were issued. “
noting that the prosecution of Vagif Khachatryan to criminal liability complies with the norms of international and national law, Makhir Abbasov emphasized that this practice exists in the criminal proceedings of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
It was also noted that in accordance with the current criminal legislation, the statute of limitations to prosecute crimes against peace and humanity, and war crimes are not distributed.
Investigation in the criminal case, excited by the authorities of the military prosecutor’s office of Azerbaijan under the relevant articles of the Criminal Code on the facts of genocide, deportation of Azerbaijanis, the destruction of numerous property belonging to rural residents and the state illegal Armenian armed groups on December 22, 1991 in the village of the Khojalinsky district continued. /p>
The investigation found that on the indicated day, a citizen of the Azerbaijan Republic of Khachatryan Vagif Cherkezovich, together with other persons of Armenian nationality, made an armed attack on the village, where 25 people were killed by Azerbaijani nationality, inflicted bodily injuries of varying degrees of bodily, 358 Azerbaijani from the places of legal. residence without the grounds provided for by international legal norms and laws of the Republic of Azerbaijan.