On August 18, 2023, the "International and Comparative Law Center" NGO submitted a report to the UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearance.
The report addresses the total number of people captured and missing as a result of the war unleashed by Azerbaijan in 2020, six of which are detailed. The report also focuses on the policy of racial discrimination and ethnic hatred against ethnic Armenians, which is fundamentally linked to enforced disappearances.
On March 9, 2021, the ECHR issued provisional measures against 229 of the 249 Armenians allegedly captured by Azerbaijan. The requests were made both by the Armenian government within the framework of the "Armenia vs. Azerbaijan" interstate application, and by the alleged POWs’ relatives in 62 individual applications. Although Azerbaijan has admitted to the capture and detention of 72 people, it has not provided any information on the remaining 112 people, claiming that they could not be identified among their captives.
The ECHR invited the government of Azerbaijan to provide specific information regarding the conditions of detention of the POWs, the medical examinations they underwent and the measures taken or planned for their repatriation. However, the government of Azerbaijan has once again failed to provide the requested information, trying to evade its obligations to the court, to gain political leverage over Armenia, and to harm the mental state of the families of missing persons in Armenia.
NEWS. "Azerbaijan ignores the requirements of the ECHR regarding providing information about Armenian prisoners of war."