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✅EVA MIKAELYAN tiene solo un año de vida y no sabe que su madre está a punto de separarla de su papá para siempre.
El juez argentino de primera instancia ( juzgado 82) y la Sala G de la Cámara Civil de Apelaciones han autorizado a su madre a llevarse las niñas por un plazo de tres meses, con la promesa que vuelva a la Argentina, donde ellos establecen el centro de vida de las niñas.
✅SOAR Capítulo Buenos Aires presentó un Amicus Curiae en el Expte. CIV 9243/2025 (Juzgado Civil N° 82), donde la Cámara Civil, Sala G, autorizó el viaje de dos nenas de 1 y 4 años a Moscú el 4 de Noviembre. Explicamos la importancia del contexto bélico, con frecuentes drones en Moscú, y la política de rusificación de niños extranjeros.
¿Dejarías a tu chiquito o chiquita argentino ir a pasear tres meses a Moscú en este contexto?
Una de las nenas es ciudadana rusa. La otra es ciudadana argentina, y es la que queda expuesta al riesgo de apropiación.
🚩¿Cuál es el problema?
Como única garantía se exige una declaración jurada de la madre, diciendo que va a volver, y un ticket de vuelta. Nada más.
Para evaluar el riesgo del destino, se tomó como referencia la página oficial de la Federación Rusa. Pero las cancillerías de EE.UU., Reino Unido, Canadá y Australia recomiendan no viajar a Rusia ("Do Not Travel / Against all travel"). Argentina no comparte ese criterio de alerta máxima. Ignoran que ciudadanos con doble ciudadanía pierden automáticamente posibilidad de asistencia consular en el momento que ponen pie en Federación Rusa. Son solamente contemplados a la luz de las leyes rusas, y sus consecuencias.
Se ignoran las políticas rusas de apropiación de niños, en todas sus modalidades. Son jueces civiles y desatienden las modalidades de sustracción de niños que son moneda de cambio en el país de destino, en momentos donde se busca el paradero de aproximadamente 20.000 niños ucranianos sustraídos de los territorios ocupados por Rusia.
🚩El 17 de marzo de 2023, la Corte Penal Internacional emitió órdenes de arresto contra Vladimir Putin y María Lvova-Belova, comisionada rusa para los derechos del niño, por la deportación y el traslado ilegal de niños desde territorios ocupados de Ucrania hacia Rusia.
Una vez en Rusia, una declaración jurada y un pasaje no protegen a una niña argentina.
🚩Mirar solo la versión del país de destino no es evaluar el riesgo. Es minimizarlo.
¿será ingenuidad?
El interés superior del niño exige contrastar fuentes independientes antes de autorizar el traslado de menores a una zona que otros países consideran de máximo riesgo.
#InterésSuperiorDelNiño #SOAR #NoAMoscú
En el Obelisco, una charla que ENCIENDE la bronca: una beba argentina de 1 año está a punto de ser ARREBATADA y llevada para siempre a Moscú.
Eva es una nena argentina, es la hija de Román Mikaelyan, de solo 1 año. Su mamá rusa denunció a Román, que tiene prohibido salir del país, y ya consiguió una resolución del 10/04/2026, que autorizaba a sacarla an Eva del país el 14/04.
Román presentó recurso urgente + medida cautelar de NO INNOVAR. Al día de hoy esta es la situación a la que se expone a Eva:
🚩Riesgo REAL y concreto de sustracción internacional.
🚩Rusia NO devuelve chicos.
🚩Denuncias usadas para OBSTRUIR el vínculo y cortar de raíz el vínculo con su papá para siempre
Eva es ARGENTINA. Nació acá. NO es un pasaporte para huir.
NO VAMOS A PERMITIR QUE SE LA LLEVEN.
La Justicia tiene que frenarlo YA.
Compartí este video como si fuera tu hija.
📍 Obelisco, Buenos Aires
#JusticiaParaEva #NoSeLlevenAEva #EvaQuedaEnArgentina #SustraccionInternacional #InteresSuperiorDelNiño #ObeliscoBA
Eva Mikaelyan es argentina.
Eva es nuestra.
@asoc_morelli
@lilialemoine
@SOARchapterBsAs
@Arm_Libertarios
@JMilei
@milei_arm
@espartanolibert
@DiegoMac227
@Adriel_Mzz
@Tcristina77
@varelacorina1
@HernanSeivane
@CommissionerHR
@volker_turk
SOARchapterBuenosAires retweeted
EVA MIKAELYAN is only one year old and doesn't know that her mother is about to separate her from her father forever.
The Argentine first-instance judge (Court No. 82) and Chamber G of the Civil Court of Appeals have authorized her mother to take the girls for a period of three months, on the promise that she will return to Argentina, which they establish as the girls' center of life.
✅SOAR Buenos Aires Chapter filed an Amicus Curiae in Case CIV 9243/2025 (Civil Court No. 82), in which Chamber G of the Civil Court of Appeals authorized the trip of two girls, aged 1 and 4, to Moscow on November 4. We explained the importance of the war context, with frequent drones over Moscow, and the policy of Russification of foreign children.
Would you let your little Argentine boy or girl go on a three-month trip to Moscow in this context?
One of the girls is a Russian citizen. The other is an Argentine citizen, and she is the one exposed to the risk of appropriation.
🚩What is the problem?
The only guarantee required is a sworn statement from the mother saying she will return, and a return ticket. Nothing more.
To assess the risk of the destination, the official website of the Russian Federation was used as a reference. But the foreign ministries of the US, the UK, Canada and Australia recommend not traveling to Russia ("Do Not Travel / Against all travel"). Argentina does not share that maximum-alert criterion. They ignore that dual citizens automatically lose access to consular assistance the moment they set foot in the Russian Federation. They are considered solely under Russian law, and its consequences.
Russian policies of child appropriation, in all their forms, are ignored. These are civil judges, and they overlook the methods of abduction of children who are used as bargaining chips in the destination country, at a time when the whereabouts of approximately 20,000 Ukrainian children taken from territories occupied by Russia are still being sought.
🚩On March 17, 2023, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants against Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, the Russian children's rights commissioner, for the unlawful deportation and transfer of children from occupied Ukrainian territories to Russia.
Once in Russia, a sworn statement and a plane ticket do not protect an Argentine girl.
🚩Looking only at the destination country's version is not a risk assessment. It is minimization.
Could it be naivety?
The best interests of the child require cross-checking independent sources before authorizing the transfer of minors to an area that other countries consider maximum risk.
#BestInterestsOfTheChild #SOAR #NoToMoscow
En el Obelisco, una charla que ENCIENDE la bronca: una beba argentina de 1 año está a punto de ser ARREBATADA y llevada para siempre a Moscú.
Eva es una nena argentina, es la hija de Román Mikaelyan, de solo 1 año. Su mamá rusa denunció a Román, que tiene prohibido salir del país, y ya consiguió una resolución del 10/04/2026, que autorizaba a sacarla an Eva del país el 14/04.
Román presentó recurso urgente + medida cautelar de NO INNOVAR. Al día de hoy esta es la situación a la que se expone a Eva:
🚩Riesgo REAL y concreto de sustracción internacional.
🚩Rusia NO devuelve chicos.
🚩Denuncias usadas para OBSTRUIR el vínculo y cortar de raíz el vínculo con su papá para siempre
Eva es ARGENTINA. Nació acá. NO es un pasaporte para huir.
NO VAMOS A PERMITIR QUE SE LA LLEVEN.
La Justicia tiene que frenarlo YA.
Compartí este video como si fuera tu hija.
📍 Obelisco, Buenos Aires
#JusticiaParaEva #NoSeLlevenAEva #EvaQuedaEnArgentina #SustraccionInternacional #InteresSuperiorDelNiño #ObeliscoBA
Eva Mikaelyan es argentina.
Eva es nuestra.
@asoc_morelli
@lilialemoine
@SOARchapterBsAs
@Arm_Libertarios
@JMilei
@milei_arm
@espartanolibert
@DiegoMac227
@Adriel_Mzz
@Tcristina77
@varelacorina1
@HernanSeivane
@CommissionerHR
@volker_turk
SOARchapterBuenosAires retweeted
EVA MIKAELYAN is only one year old and doesn't know that her mother is about to separate her from her father forever.
The Argentine first-instance judge (Court No. 82) and Chamber G of the Civil Court of Appeals have authorized her mother to take the girls for a period of three months, on the promise that she will return to Argentina, which they establish as the girls' center of life.
✅SOAR Buenos Aires Chapter filed an Amicus Curiae in Case CIV 9243/2025 (Civil Court No. 82), in which Chamber G of the Civil Court of Appeals authorized the trip of two girls, aged 1 and 4, to Moscow on November 4. We explained the importance of the war context, with frequent drones over Moscow, and the policy of Russification of foreign children.
Would you let your little Argentine boy or girl go on a three-month trip to Moscow in this context?
One of the girls is a Russian citizen. The other is an Argentine citizen, and she is the one exposed to the risk of appropriation.
🚩What is the problem?
The only guarantee required is a sworn statement from the mother saying she will return, and a return ticket. Nothing more.
To assess the risk of the destination, the official website of the Russian Federation was used as a reference. But the foreign ministries of the US, the UK, Canada and Australia recommend not traveling to Russia ("Do Not Travel / Against all travel"). Argentina does not share that maximum-alert criterion. They ignore that dual citizens automatically lose access to consular assistance the moment they set foot in the Russian Federation. They are considered solely under Russian law, and its consequences.
Russian policies of child appropriation, in all their forms, are ignored. These are civil judges, and they overlook the methods of abduction of children who are used as bargaining chips in the destination country, at a time when the whereabouts of approximately 20,000 Ukrainian children taken from territories occupied by Russia are still being sought.
🚩On March 17, 2023, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants against Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, the Russian children's rights commissioner, for the unlawful deportation and transfer of children from occupied Ukrainian territories to Russia.
Once in Russia, a sworn statement and a plane ticket do not protect an Argentine girl.
🚩Looking only at the destination country's version is not a risk assessment. It is minimization.
Could it be naivety?
The best interests of the child require cross-checking independent sources before authorizing the transfer of minors to an area that other countries consider maximum risk.
#BestInterestsOfTheChild #SOAR #NoToMoscow
SOARchapterBuenosAires retweeted
EVA MIKAELYAN is only one year old and doesn't know that her mother is about to separate her from her father forever.
The Argentine first-instance judge (Court No. 82) and Chamber G of the Civil Court of Appeals have authorized her mother to take the girls for a period of three months, on the promise that she will return to Argentina, which they establish as the girls' center of life.
✅SOAR Buenos Aires Chapter filed an Amicus Curiae in Case CIV 9243/2025 (Civil Court No. 82), in which Chamber G of the Civil Court of Appeals authorized the trip of two girls, aged 1 and 4, to Moscow on November 4. We explained the importance of the war context, with frequent drones over Moscow, and the policy of Russification of foreign children.
Would you let your little Argentine boy or girl go on a three-month trip to Moscow in this context?
One of the girls is a Russian citizen. The other is an Argentine citizen, and she is the one exposed to the risk of appropriation.
🚩What is the problem?
The only guarantee required is a sworn statement from the mother saying she will return, and a return ticket. Nothing more.
To assess the risk of the destination, the official website of the Russian Federation was used as a reference. But the foreign ministries of the US, the UK, Canada and Australia recommend not traveling to Russia ("Do Not Travel / Against all travel"). Argentina does not share that maximum-alert criterion. They ignore that dual citizens automatically lose access to consular assistance the moment they set foot in the Russian Federation. They are considered solely under Russian law, and its consequences.
Russian policies of child appropriation, in all their forms, are ignored. These are civil judges, and they overlook the methods of abduction of children who are used as bargaining chips in the destination country, at a time when the whereabouts of approximately 20,000 Ukrainian children taken from territories occupied by Russia are still being sought.
🚩On March 17, 2023, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants against Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, the Russian children's rights commissioner, for the unlawful deportation and transfer of children from occupied Ukrainian territories to Russia.
Once in Russia, a sworn statement and a plane ticket do not protect an Argentine girl.
🚩Looking only at the destination country's version is not a risk assessment. It is minimization.
Could it be naivety?
The best interests of the child require cross-checking independent sources before authorizing the transfer of minors to an area that other countries consider maximum risk.
#BestInterestsOfTheChild #SOAR #NoToMoscow
SOARchapterBuenosAires retweeted
Honored to present at the XVI Hellenic International Congress Nóstos in Mar del Plata, Nov 3–6. My paper, “The Interrupted Phrase,” looks at how law can reunite what was conceived together: from the Parthenon’s Fagan fragment to my family’s home in Kallithea. #Nostos2026
@GreeceArgentina
@GreeceMFA
.@unmdp
SOARchapterBuenosAires retweeted
Una maravillosa tarde conociendo a una valiente mujer, que junto a su esposo y sus niños pequeños, partió de Cuba para darle un futuro a ellos en USA 🇺🇸.
Felicitaciones Embajador Peter Lamelas, su madre es encantadora.
@USAmbassadorARG
@pldocmd
SOARchapterBuenosAires retweeted
Amazing rodeo night !!!!
From “la Sole” to Dolly Parton’s “Jolene”, we enjoyed a total merge of American and Argentinian cultures.
Thank you Ambassador
Peter Lamelas for this wonderful evening
.@USAmbassadorARG .@pldocmd
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SOAR – Society for Orphaned Armenian Relief
Buenos Aires Chapter
Buenos Aires, 20 de octubre de 2026
El Buenos Aires Chapter de SOAR – Society for Orphaned Armenian Relief expresa su firme solidaridad con las personas presas políticas en Irán que participan en la campaña “No to Execution Tuesdays”, que hoy cumple su 143.ª semana consecutiva.
Tomamos nota con respeto de la decisión del Sr. Leopoldo Maldonado, Relator Especial de las Naciones Unidas sobre la promoción y protección del derecho a la libertad de opinión y de expresión, de realizar una huelga de hambre de solidaridad de 24 horas junto a las personas presas. Asimismo, reconocemos la acción de solidaridad previa de la Sra. Gina Romero, Relatora Especial de las Naciones Unidas sobre los derechos a la libertad de reunión pacífica y de asociación, y la atención continua prestada al tema por la Sra. Mai Sato, Relatora Especial de las Naciones Unidas sobre la situación de los derechos humanos en Irán.
La magnitud del uso de la pena de muerte contra presos políticos y manifestantes en Irán resulta profundamente alarmante. Informes indican que al menos 46 presos políticos y manifestantes han sido ejecutados desde el 19 de marzo de 2026, mientras más de 100 personas permanecen condenadas a muerte. Cargos como moharebeh (guerra contra Dios), baghi (rebelión armada) y efsad-e fel-arz (corrupción en la tierra) continúan aplicándose en casos que involucran protesta pacífica, expresión política y supuesta afiliación opositora, criminalizando el ejercicio de derechos fundamentales protegidos por el derecho internacional de los derechos humanos.
Como organización dedicada a la defensa de la dignidad humana y a la prevención de atrocidades, SOAR Buenos Aires comparte la preocupación expresada por el Sr. Maldonado de que la actual ola de ejecuciones políticas y condenas a muerte presenta similitudes inquietantes con el patrón que precedió a la masacre de presos políticos de 1988. Estas señales de alerta no pueden ser ignoradas por la comunidad internacional.
Instamos a las autoridades de la República Islámica de Irán a:
• detener de inmediato todas las ejecuciones de presos políticos y manifestantes;
• conmutar las condenas a muerte existentes;
• revisar los casos que no cumplen con los estándares de juicio justo;
• investigar las denuncias de tortura y malos tratos; y
• cesar el uso de cargos capitales contra personas por el ejercicio de la libertad de expresión, reunión y asociación.
SOAR Buenos Aires se solidariza con las personas presas de la campaña “No to Execution Tuesdays” y con todas aquellas que se niegan a permanecer en silencio ante los asesinatos sancionados por el Estado. El silencio no es una opción. El derecho a la vida y la prohibición de la privación arbitraria de la vida deben respetarse sin excepción.
#NoToExecutionTuesdays
Luciana Minassian
President
SOAR Buenos Aires Chapter
Attorney-at-Law (CPACF)
Carolina Ouzcouchian
Deputy
SOAR Buenos Aires Chapter
Buenos Aires, Argentina
[email protected]
@womenncri
@HanifJazayeri
@HanifFreeIran
@IranRightsIRT
@sheriran95
SOARchapterBuenosAires retweeted
.@SOAR calls on the international community:
*Demand immediate release of all 19 🇦🇲hostages.
*Conduct independent investigations into war crimes.
*Hold Azerbaijan accountable for violations of intl law.
*Restore ICRC access.
*Recognize that justice is the foundation of peace.
🧵 SOAR Chapter Buenos Aires
Statement on 19 Armenian Hostages Held by Azerbaijan
Ambassador Paruyr Hovhannisyan has just brought the 19 Armenian hostages unjustly detained in Azerbaijan to the UN General Assembly. This is not just a human rights issue, it is ESSENTIAL to the peace process. We support his courageous statement with all our strength.
These 19 Armenians are held in the Umbaki Penitentiary Complex in Baku. They include former leaders of Artsakh Republic seized during the documented ethnic cleansing of September 2023, when 120,000 Armenians were forcibly displaced from their ancestral homeland.
The violations are undeniable:
✗ 16 subjected to sham trials in Baku Military Court
✗ Verdicts ranging from 15 years to life imprisonment
✗ Amnesty International called the trials "a travesty and mockery of justice"
Former Foreign Minister David Babayan released an audio statement (October 1, 2026) proving that Azerbaijan's appellate court simply copied the first-instance verdict verbatim and CENSORED his defense arguments from the official record. This is not justice. This is state-sponsored fraud.
Attorney Siranush Sahakyan documented systematic torture:
✗ Armenian Christian hostages had their cross tattoos BURNED OFF their skin
✗ They were forced to read the Quran
✗ Held in absolute isolation from other prisoners
✗ Arriving at court with fractures from beatings
TORTURED. ISOLATED. DISAPPEARED FROM INDEPENDENT OVERSIGHT.
Azerbaijan expelled the International Committee of the Red Cross in September 2025. These 19 people now have ZERO independent humanitarian access. No witnesses to their treatment. No protection from further abuse.
The International Court of Justice ruled that Azerbaijan violated the Racial Discrimination Convention. Former ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo concluded that the 9-month blockade of Artsakh and the subsequent ethnic cleansing CONSTITUTE GENOCIDE.
And yet these 19 are still imprisoned. Still tortured. Still forgotten by the world.
Ambassador Hovhannisyan is right: resolving this humanitarian crisis is not separate from the peace process. It IS the peace process.
No genuine peace can be built on torture, arbitrary detention, forced disappearances, and impunity.
SOAR calls on the international community:
🔴 Demand immediate release of all 19 Armenian hostages
🔴 Conduct independent investigations into war crimes
🔴 Hold Azerbaijan accountable for violations of international law
🔴 Restore ICRC access
🔴 Recognize that justice is the foundation of peace
We thank Ambassador Hovhannisyan for placing this crisis on the UN record. For refusing to let these 19 be forgotten. For standing with Armenia and with all who demand that human rights be protected.
The families are waiting. The world is watching.
The 19 Armenian hostages must be released NOW. There can be no peace without justice. There can be no reconciliation without accountability.
#FreeArmenianHostages #JusticeForArmenians #Peace #HumanRights #UN #HovhannisyanStatement #ArtsakhGenocide #FreeThemAll
@ParuyrPh
@presidentaz
@ombudsman_az
@1VicePresident
@UNDP
@UN
@UN_HRC
@UNGeneva
@ICRC
@volker_turk
@AzeriTimes
🚨 Comunicado sobre los 19 rehenes armenios retenidos por Azerbaiyan.
@MinassianOk @ParuyrPh
instagram.com/p/DeIIccGEuW5/…
SOARchapterBuenosAires retweeted
🧵 SOAR Chapter Buenos Aires
Statement on 19 Armenian Hostages Held by Azerbaijan
Ambassador Paruyr Hovhannisyan has just brought the 19 Armenian hostages unjustly detained in Azerbaijan to the UN General Assembly. This is not just a human rights issue, it is ESSENTIAL to the peace process. We support his courageous statement with all our strength.
These 19 Armenians are held in the Umbaki Penitentiary Complex in Baku. They include former leaders of Artsakh Republic seized during the documented ethnic cleansing of September 2023, when 120,000 Armenians were forcibly displaced from their ancestral homeland.
The violations are undeniable:
✗ 16 subjected to sham trials in Baku Military Court
✗ Verdicts ranging from 15 years to life imprisonment
✗ Amnesty International called the trials "a travesty and mockery of justice"
Former Foreign Minister David Babayan released an audio statement (October 1, 2026) proving that Azerbaijan's appellate court simply copied the first-instance verdict verbatim and CENSORED his defense arguments from the official record. This is not justice. This is state-sponsored fraud.
Attorney Siranush Sahakyan documented systematic torture:
✗ Armenian Christian hostages had their cross tattoos BURNED OFF their skin
✗ They were forced to read the Quran
✗ Held in absolute isolation from other prisoners
✗ Arriving at court with fractures from beatings
TORTURED. ISOLATED. DISAPPEARED FROM INDEPENDENT OVERSIGHT.
Azerbaijan expelled the International Committee of the Red Cross in September 2025. These 19 people now have ZERO independent humanitarian access. No witnesses to their treatment. No protection from further abuse.
The International Court of Justice ruled that Azerbaijan violated the Racial Discrimination Convention. Former ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo concluded that the 9-month blockade of Artsakh and the subsequent ethnic cleansing CONSTITUTE GENOCIDE.
And yet these 19 are still imprisoned. Still tortured. Still forgotten by the world.
Ambassador Hovhannisyan is right: resolving this humanitarian crisis is not separate from the peace process. It IS the peace process.
No genuine peace can be built on torture, arbitrary detention, forced disappearances, and impunity.
SOAR calls on the international community:
🔴 Demand immediate release of all 19 Armenian hostages
🔴 Conduct independent investigations into war crimes
🔴 Hold Azerbaijan accountable for violations of international law
🔴 Restore ICRC access
🔴 Recognize that justice is the foundation of peace
We thank Ambassador Hovhannisyan for placing this crisis on the UN record. For refusing to let these 19 be forgotten. For standing with Armenia and with all who demand that human rights be protected.
The families are waiting. The world is watching.
The 19 Armenian hostages must be released NOW. There can be no peace without justice. There can be no reconciliation without accountability.
#FreeArmenianHostages #JusticeForArmenians #Peace #HumanRights #UN #HovhannisyanStatement #ArtsakhGenocide #FreeThemAll
@ParuyrPh
@presidentaz
@ombudsman_az
@1VicePresident
@UNDP
@UN
@UN_HRC
@UNGeneva
@ICRC
@volker_turk
SOARchapterBuenosAires retweeted
🧵 SOAR Chapter Buenos Aires
Statement on 19 Armenian Hostages Held by Azerbaijan
Ambassador Paruyr Hovhannisyan has just brought the 19 Armenian hostages unjustly detained in Azerbaijan to the UN General Assembly. This is not just a human rights issue, it is ESSENTIAL to the peace process. We support his courageous statement with all our strength.
These 19 Armenians are held in the Umbaki Penitentiary Complex in Baku. They include former leaders of Artsakh Republic seized during the documented ethnic cleansing of September 2023, when 120,000 Armenians were forcibly displaced from their ancestral homeland.
The violations are undeniable:
✗ 16 subjected to sham trials in Baku Military Court
✗ Verdicts ranging from 15 years to life imprisonment
✗ Amnesty International called the trials "a travesty and mockery of justice"
Former Foreign Minister David Babayan released an audio statement (October 1, 2026) proving that Azerbaijan's appellate court simply copied the first-instance verdict verbatim and CENSORED his defense arguments from the official record. This is not justice. This is state-sponsored fraud.
Attorney Siranush Sahakyan documented systematic torture:
✗ Armenian Christian hostages had their cross tattoos BURNED OFF their skin
✗ They were forced to read the Quran
✗ Held in absolute isolation from other prisoners
✗ Arriving at court with fractures from beatings
TORTURED. ISOLATED. DISAPPEARED FROM INDEPENDENT OVERSIGHT.
Azerbaijan expelled the International Committee of the Red Cross in September 2025. These 19 people now have ZERO independent humanitarian access. No witnesses to their treatment. No protection from further abuse.
The International Court of Justice ruled that Azerbaijan violated the Racial Discrimination Convention. Former ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo concluded that the 9-month blockade of Artsakh and the subsequent ethnic cleansing CONSTITUTE GENOCIDE.
And yet these 19 are still imprisoned. Still tortured. Still forgotten by the world.
Ambassador Hovhannisyan is right: resolving this humanitarian crisis is not separate from the peace process. It IS the peace process.
No genuine peace can be built on torture, arbitrary detention, forced disappearances, and impunity.
SOAR calls on the international community:
🔴 Demand immediate release of all 19 Armenian hostages
🔴 Conduct independent investigations into war crimes
🔴 Hold Azerbaijan accountable for violations of international law
🔴 Restore ICRC access
🔴 Recognize that justice is the foundation of peace
We thank Ambassador Hovhannisyan for placing this crisis on the UN record. For refusing to let these 19 be forgotten. For standing with Armenia and with all who demand that human rights be protected.
The families are waiting. The world is watching.
The 19 Armenian hostages must be released NOW. There can be no peace without justice. There can be no reconciliation without accountability.
#FreeArmenianHostages #JusticeForArmenians #Peace #HumanRights #UN #HovhannisyanStatement #ArtsakhGenocide #FreeThemAll
@ParuyrPh
@presidentaz
@ombudsman_az
@1VicePresident
@UNDP
@UN
@UN_HRC
@UNGeneva
@ICRC
@volker_turk
@AzeriTimes
Armenia Puts The 19 Armenian Hostages Unjustly Held By Azerbaijan On The UN Record As An Urgent Humanitarian Issue 🇦🇲
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Armenia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Paruyr Hovhannisyan, has raised the 19 Armenian hostages unjustly held by Azerbaijan as an urgent humanitarian issue in his statement to the UN General Assembly's Third Committee, the Permanent Mission of Armenia to the UN announced. Hovhannisyan spoke during the general debate of the Third Committee at the 81st session of the General Assembly. The Third Committee is the body of the General Assembly that handles human rights, social, and humanitarian issues.
Hovhannisyan said that as efforts to consolidate peace continue, a number of urgent humanitarian issues remain to be addressed. He raised the continued holding of 19 Armenians in Azerbaijan, the need to clarify the fate and whereabouts of missing persons, and cases of enforced disappearances. He said resolving these humanitarian issues would contribute to strengthening peace, building trust, and supporting reconciliation in the region.
He also reaffirmed Armenia's support for further strengthening the UN human rights system to prevent human rights violations and ensure accountability. Hovhannisyan outlined Armenian efforts on human rights mechanisms, gender equality, the rights of children, and the prevention agenda.
The 19 Armenian hostages are held at the Umbaki Penitentiary Complex in the Qaradag district of Baku. 16 have been sentenced after sham trials in the Baku Military Court. 8 are former Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) political and military leaders, seized by Azerbaijani forces in September 2023 as they fled alongside more than 120,000 Armenians forcibly displaced from their ancestral homeland in Azerbaijan's documented ethnic cleansing of occupied Artsakh.
On February 5, 2026, the Baku Military Court sentenced former Artsakh President Arayik Harutyunyan, former Foreign Minister David Babayan, former National Assembly Speaker Davit Ishkhanyan, former Defense Army commander Levon Mnatsakanyan, and former deputy commander Davit Manukyan to life imprisonment. Former Artsakh Presidents Arkadi Ghukasyan and Bako Sahakyan received 20-year terms. Former State Minister Ruben Vardanyan was tried separately and sentenced to 20 years on February 17, 2026. Civilian hostages Madat Babayan and Melikset Pashayan received 19-year terms, Garik Martirosyan received 18 years, Davit Alahverdyan and Levon Balayan received 16 years, and Erik Ghazaryan, Gurgen Stepanyan, and Vasil Beglaryan received 15 years. Amnesty International called the verdicts a travesty and a mockery of justice.
Hovhannisyan's statement comes after a series of recent disclosures from inside the Umbaki prison. On October 1, former Foreign Minister David Babayan released an audio statement describing the Baku appellate court's ruling as 99.9 percent copy-pasted from the first-instance verdict and documenting that Azerbaijan censored his counter-arguments from the appellate record. On September 16, Ruben Vardanyan recorded a public appeal to Azerbaijan's Human Rights Commissioner Sabina Aliyeva documenting specific violations of Azerbaijan's own legal code in the treatment of the 19 hostages, saying "However long we still spend in Umbaki, please comply with your own laws." On September 4, attorney Siranush Sahakyan disclosed in a press briefing that Armenian Christian hostages have had their cross tattoos burned off their skin through torture and been forced to read the Quran. Sahakyan said the hostages are also held in absolute isolation from other prisoners and have arrived at proceedings with fractures from beatings.
Azerbaijan expelled the International Committee of the Red Cross in September 2025, ending the last independent access to the Armenian hostages. Former International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo published a legal opinion in August 2023 concluding that the nine-month Azerbaijani blockade of Artsakh that preceded the September 2023 ethnic cleansing constituted genocide under the Genocide Convention. The International Court of Justice ordered Azerbaijan on November 17, 2023, by 13 votes to 2, to ensure that Armenians who left Artsakh after September 19, 2023 could return in a safe, unimpeded, and expeditious manner. Azerbaijan has never complied.
The Buenos Aires Chapter of the Society for Orphaned Armenian Relief (SOAR) informs that its application to join the Coalition for a Convention on Crimes Against Humanity (C-CAH) has been reviewed and accepted.
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Statement of membership
Buenos Aires, 1 October 2026
The Buenos Aires Chapter of the Society for Orphaned Armenian Relief (SOAR) informs that its application to join the Coalition for a Convention on Crimes Against Humanity (C-CAH) has been reviewed and accepted. The Chapter is therefore a member of the Coalition.
Membership is undertaken in support of the Coalition’s objective: an effective, victim- and survivor-centric, non-discriminatory convention on the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity.
By this membership, the Buenos Aires Chapter of SOAR assumes the following ongoing commitments:
1. To work independently of formal or informal governmental or international organisations in its participation in the Coalition.
2. To support the Coalition’s core commitments and the progressive development of international law.
3. To work cooperatively and collaboratively with other Coalition members.
4. To share relevant information in a timely manner.
5. To respect the confidentiality of internal Coalition discussions and materials, except where information is already public or has been designated for external outreach.
6. To operate in accordance with the principles of non-discrimination and equity.
7. To support an inclusive and transparent negotiation process that facilitates the participation of diverse, cross-regional civil society, including victims and survivors of crimes against humanity.
The principal contact for the Buenos Aires Chapter of SOAR in the Coalition is its President.
Luciana Minassian
President
SOAR Buenos Aires Chapter
Attorney-at-Law (CPACF)
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Declaración de adhesión
Buenos Aires, 1 de octubre de 2026
El Capítulo Buenos Aires de la Society for Orphaned Armenian Relief (SOAR) informa que su solicitud de adhesión a la Coalición por una Convención sobre Crímenes de Lesa Humanidad (C-CAH) ha sido examinada y aceptada. El Capítulo es, por tanto, miembro de la Coalición.
La adhesión se asume en apoyo del objetivo de la Coalición: una convención eficaz, centrada en las víctimas y en los sobrevivientes, y no discriminatoria, sobre la prevención y la sanción de los crímenes de lesa humanidad.
En virtud de esta membresía, el Capítulo Buenos Aires de SOAR asume los siguientes compromisos permanentes:
1. Actuar con independencia de organizaciones gubernamentales o internacionales, formales o informales, en su participación en la Coalición.
2. Apoyar los compromisos fundamentales de la Coalición y el desarrollo progresivo del derecho internacional.
3. Trabajar de manera cooperativa y colaborativa con los demás miembros de la Coalición.
4. Compartir la información pertinente de manera oportuna.
5. Respetar la confidencialidad de las deliberaciones y los materiales internos de la Coalición, salvo cuando la información ya sea pública o haya sido destinada a la difusión externa.
6. Actuar conforme a los principios de no discriminación y equidad.
7. Apoyar un proceso de negociación inclusivo y transparente que facilite la participación de una sociedad civil diversa y transregional, incluidas las víctimas y los sobrevivientes de crímenes de lesa humanidad.
La persona de contacto principal del Capítulo Buenos Aires de SOAR ante la Coalición es su Presidenta.
Luciana Minassian
Presidente
Capítulo Buenos Aires de SOAR
Abogada (CPACF)
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🎙️ Interview with Dr. Luciana Minassian
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On behalf of the @SOARchapterBsAs team and its president @minassianok, we thank you for your support and for helping to spread the word. We will exhaust every avenue to secure the immediate and unconditional release of all the prisoners.
🚨 Tras el valiente llamamiento público de Ruben Vardanyan el 16 de septiembre de 2026, el capítulo de Buenos Aires de SOAR, ha enviado una carta formal a la Primera Vicepresidente de Azerbaiyán, Mehriban Aliyeva.
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