CoE RAPPORTEUR SAYS MENTALLY ILL MUST BE FREED FROM CAPTIVITY
00:00, August 23, 2007 | The Rights of Conflict Victims
Those Azerbaijanis who have mental illnesses must be freed from captivity, Council of Europe Rapporteur on Missing People in the South Caucasus Leo Platvoet told Trend in an interview. In his words, people with mental disabilities must live in special places and not in captivity.
According to Trend, the Armenian party keeps two mentally ill persons in captivity, Anar Aliev and Ashraf Jafarov.
“If Armenia and Azerbaijan are going to join the European structures and NATO, they must stop taking soldiers in captivity,” CoE official said.
The Armenian Foreign Ministry has made no comment on CoE official’s statement so far.
Source: Panorama.am