Lebanese mercenary fighting in Karabakh sentenced to 20 years

The trial of Lebanese mercenary terrorist Euljekjian Vicken Abraham, who fought in Karabakh, ended today in the Yasamal District Court.

According to Report, the defendant was sentenced in a trial chaired by Judge Elbay Allahverdiyev.

The court convicted Abraham of 20 years in prison.

Thus, he will serve the first five years of his sentence in jail and the rest in a maximum-security prison.

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Today, the Yasamal District Court will continue the trial on the criminal case of Lebanese mercenary terrorist Euljekjian Vicken Abraham, who fought in Karabakh.

According to Report, the court is expected to announce the verdict in the trial chaired by Judge Elbay Allahverdiyev.

The public prosecutor demanded that the accused be sentenced to 20 years in prison at the last court hearing.

According to the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office and the State Security Service of Azerbaijan, the investigation on the criminal case, initiated by the Main Investigation Department of the State Security Service of the Republic of Azerbaijan under the relevant articles of the Criminal Code upon the fact of participation of Euljekjian Vicken Abraham, a citizen of the Republic of Lebanon, and others in terrorist activities against the citizens of the Republic of Azerbaijan as mercenaries in an organized group in exchange for remuneration, has been completed.

The investigation established that on September 29, 2020, Euljekjian Vicken Abraham, born in 1979, a citizen of the Lebanese Republic, a resident of Beirut, initially accepted Hovak Kikia's offer, a citizen of the Republic of Lebanon, to participate in military operations in the occupied territories of the Republic of Azerbaijan as a mercenary in exchange for a material reward of $2,500. For this purpose, on the same day, with other persons as a member of an organized group, he deliberately crossed the protected state border of the Republic of Azerbaijan from the area of Armenia outside the checkpoints and arrived in the territories where other mercenaries were also present.

Besides, Vicken Euljekjian and other persons who fought as mercenaries in exchange for material rewards participated in terrorist activities against the citizens and the Army of the Republic of Azerbaijan, using illegally obtained firearms, ammunition, and spare parts not provided for in the legislation of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Vicken Euljekjian was charged under Article 114.3 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan (participation of a mercenary in a military conflict or military operation), 214.2.1 (terrorist actions by a group of persons upon a prior conspiracy, an organized group, or a criminal organization), 318.2 (illegal crossing of the state border of the Republic of Azerbaijan) and other articles of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan. By the court decision, arrest as a measure of restraint was chosen against him.