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Five more Armenian prisoners returned from Baku. The return of the captured Armenians held in Azerbaijan after the end of the second Karabakh war, once again, took place with the participation of Rustam Muradov, now the former commander of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Karabakh. All previous exchanges took place when Rustamov was still in command.

The plane from Baku landed at the Erebuni airport in Yerevan. Five Armenians returned to their homeland: Mels Hambardanyan, Rafik Karapetyan, Zhora Manukyan, Sedrak Soghomonyan, Hovsep Manukyan.

Three of them – Rafik Karapetyan, Sedrak Soghomonyan and Mels Hambardanyan – were sentenced on July 23 by an Azerbaijani court to 6 years in prison. The same verdict was passed on July 22 in the Baku court against Zhora Manukyan and on July 29 against Hovsep Manukyan.