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Baku/01.09.23/Turan: On August 30 and 31, representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross visited three Armenian football players detained on the 28th at the Lachin border checkpoint.
Face-to-face meetings were held with them and an opportunity was given to contact their families, the ICRC representative office in Baku reported.
These persons are players of the Karabakh Armenians football team "Avo". In 2021 they distributed a video where all the team members trample the Azerbaijani flag. At the same time, the Prosecutor's Office of Azerbaijan opened a criminal case under the articles "inciting national hatred" and "insulting the national flag".
After the arrest, the players admitted their guilt and repented of what they had done. In this regard, the Azerbaijani Prosecutor's Office has released them from criminal prosecution. They were arrested administratively for 10 days for spreading their illegal actions on the Internet. ---16B---
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