Shahbaz Guliyev hospitalized in Yerevan with serious health problem

Baku.2 October. REPORT.AZ/ Azerbaijani citizen Shahbaz Guliyev who is kept as a hostage in Shusha prison, experiences serious health problems following which he was delivered to Yerevan hospital, Shahbaz Guliyev’s relative told Report. 

He said that they received information that Shahbaz Guliyev will be kept in Yerevan hospital for a month: “We were shown video images with Shahbaz Guliyev’s conversation. He says that he has had gallbladder surgery. After surgery he had serious health problems following which he was delivered to hospital.”

According to his relative, from video it is very obvious that Sh. Guliyev’s health is in very serious state: “Shahbaz says he has problem with digestion, he can’t eat or digest the received food.”

It is the third video footage that family receives, since Sh.Guliyev has been held in hostage by Armenian armed forces.

Dilgam Asgarov and Shahbaz Guliyev were taken hostages by Armenian armed forces in Kalbajar, occupied territory of Azerbaijan on July 10, 2014. They tried to visit graves of their relatives in their homeland in Kalbajar. On December 10, illegal court of the separatist regime in the Nagorno-Karabakh sentenced Dilgam Asgarov to life in prison and Shahbaz Guliyev to 22 years.

Despite that many measures were taken for their release, it has not been possible to set them free yet. Currently the contact with them is mediated only through the representatives of International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).