Armenia submitted request to ECHR to apply interim measure for 26 of 44 returned captives

Forty four officially confirmed captives were transferred from Azerbaijan to Armenia on Monday, for 26 of whom the Armenian government had submitted requests to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to apply an interim measure, the office of Armenia's representative in the ECHR reports.

"During all this time, the Office of the Representative of the Republic of Armenia in the ECHR has coordinated the work aimed at protecting the convention rights of our compatriots, and has been in active contact with the relatives of the captives.

The Office of the Representative of the Republic of Armenia in the ECHR continues its daily work to submit claims on violations by the Azerbaijani side, including the protection of the convention rights of the captives," the representative stressed, at the same time urging to refrain from publishing and circulating the names or photos of returned people.