{"id":46766,"date":"2010-10-06T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T10:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/10\/06\/saribekyan-in-azerbaijan-was-subjected-to-torture-defense-ministry\/"},"modified":"2010-10-06T10:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T10:41:00","slug":"saribekyan-in-azerbaijan-was-subjected-to-torture-defense-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/10\/06\/saribekyan-in-azerbaijan-was-subjected-to-torture-defense-ministry.html","title":{"rendered":"Saribekyan in Azerbaijan was Subjected to Torture: Defense Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Armenia’s Ministry of Defense yesterday issued a statement on reports from Azerbaijani media that Manvel Saribekyan, who had been taken captive by Azerbaijani soldiers, had committed suicide while in their custody.<\/p>\n

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The statement from the ministry reads:<\/p>\n

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“Despite Armenia’s explanations that the young man was an average shepherd who had wandered and found himself on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border, Azerbaijan persistently insisted that Saribekyan, who was on the other side of the border on Sept. 11, was a member of a ‘diversion’ group.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“Then the Azerbaijani propaganda machine disseminated a video online in which the young Armenian said that, allegedly, they have specially prepared him in Azerbaijan to carry out a terrorist act. However, it is clearly apparent in the video that the young man was subject to torture.”<\/p>\n

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Editor’s Note: at 6:44 pm on Oct. 6, 2010, “Samvel Saribekyan” was corrected to “Manvel Saribekyan.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Armenia’s Ministry…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[16660],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}