Ex-Karabakh official held by Azerbaijan declares second hunger strike amid terrorism trial


(Reuters) - Ruben Vardanyan, a former top official in the ethnic Armenian administration of Nagorno-Karabakh which Azerbaijan retook in 2023, announced a second hunger strike on Wednesday in protest against his criminal trial in Baku.

"Today, I have decided to protest by declaring a hunger strike against the judicial farce being carried out against me," Vardanyan said in a statement via his lawyers.

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