Overview
- Life sentences were announced for Araik Arutyunyan, Levon Mnatsakanyan, David Manukyan, David Ishkhanyan, and David Babayan, according to court and state media reports.
- Former Nagorno-Karabakh presidents Arkadiy Gukasyan and Bako Saakyan received 20-year prison terms because defendants over 65 cannot be given life sentences under Azerbaijani law.
- Judges are still reading verdicts for the remaining defendants in the mass trial, which follows more than ten hearings in Baku's military court.
- Prosecutors brought grave counts that include aggressive war, violations of the laws and customs of war, genocide, financing terrorism, violent seizure of power, and murder.
- All defendants were detained in late 2023 after Azerbaijan reasserted control over Nagorno-Karabakh, and the case list includes former state minister Ruben Vardanyan.