BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 20. A seminar dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions was held in Baku, Trend reports.
The event, organized jointly by the Ombudsman of Azerbaijan and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), discussed best practices and challenges in the application of international law.
Representatives of the relevant government agencies of Azerbaijan and the head of the ICRC Baku office took part in the event.
An employee of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan, Captain Salim Ahmadov said that Armenia violated international humanitarian law by opening fire on civilians during the Second Karabakh War.
He noted that the civilian population of the cities of Ganja and Barda was subjected to shelling by Armenia.
"As a result, many Azerbaijani citizens were killed, and significant damage was inflicted on civilian infrastructure.
The missile attack on Ganja left 175 people, including 61 men, 66 women, and 47 children, injured. The attack on Barda killed 29 people (19 men, eight women, and two children). In total, 112 people were injured in this attack, with 71 men, 26 women, and 15 children seriously injured," he added.
The head of the detention issues group at the ICRC representation in Azerbaijan Mareh Shervashidze noted that last year, the staff of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) conducted 2,564 visits to detainees in detention and incarceration facilities globally.
Shervashidze added that among the visited detention facilities, there were 885 institutions, with a total of 837,029 detainees.
"The number of detainees we registered and followed up on was 14,020, including 1,524 prisoners of war and 1,382 civilians. The total number of contexts in which visits were conducted reached 84," he added.
Ilaha Huseynova, head of the Public Relations Department of the ICRC office in Azerbaijan said that the staff of the International Committee of the Red Cross compiles an observation report after each visit to places of detention.
She noted that these reports are confidential and are not sent by mail.
“The data is transmitted directly from hand to hand. Such reports are provided only to authorized bodies. Only foreign nationals participate in visits to detention centers. No local citizen participates in visits to persons held in places of detention of their country,” Huseynova added.
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