Armenian Groups Don’t Know Political Asylum Seeker In Azerbaijan

September 23, 2015
Armenian citizen Vahan Martirosian holds a news conference in Baku on September 18, 2015 (Source: Photolure)

Armenian citizen Vahan Martirosian holds a news conference in Baku on September 18, 2015 (Source: Photolure)

YEREVAN (RFE/RL)””Opposition and civil activists in Armenia say they don’t know the man who asked for political asylum in Azerbaijan last week, claiming to be an Armenian civic activist persecuted in his home country.

Vahan Martirosian, a 32-year-old citizen of Armenia, introduced himself as the leader of the International Liberation Movement and described himself as an oppressed activist at a press conference in Baku on September 18.

He left Armenia and entered Azerbaijan through Georgia despite being under investigation by police for theft and under a confinement order to stay in Armenia.

Talking to RFE/RL’s Armenian Service, opposition leaders in Armenia said that they never met Martirosian.

“Being involved in different civic initiatives myself, I have not physically seen him in any movement,”

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