Baku, Azerbaijan, April 26. On 25 April 2025,
the International Court of Justice in The Hague declined a series
of requests by Armenia in connection with the treatment of Ruben
Vardanyan and other 15 Armenians currently under the trial before
the Baku Military Court with respect to crimes committed as a
result of aggression of Armenia against Azerbaijan, and during and
after the 2020 Patriotic War, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
Azerbaijan said, Trend reports.
“Having considered Azerbaijan’s response and accompanying
evidence in the case concerning the Application of the
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination (CERD), the Court decided not to request further
information, or to commission an independent enquiry or expert
report, into the detainees’ circumstances.
It is well-known that Armenians currently under trial are
treated in accordance with all applicable Azerbaijani and
international legal standards, and have received multiple visits
from the ICRC and Azerbaijan’s Office of the Commissioner for Human
Rights.
The Court’s decision follows recent opinion by the UN Working
Group on Arbitrary Detention, which confirmed that Ruben Vardanyan
is being detained on the basis of criminal charges concerning
serious threats to Azerbaijan’s national security, public safety
and public order.
This decision once again confirms that Armenia’s baseless
requests designed to disrupt the ongoing trials and distract from
the misconduct of Armenia’s illegally installed regime in the
formerly-occupied territories will not yield any result,” the
statement reads.