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An Azerbaijani soldier taken captive by Armenian armed forces on October 8 near Azerbaijan`s Gazakh district "was unconscious" during his meeting with representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross, the POW`s family said.
The ICRC informed the parents of 19-year old Rafig Hasanov about this. His mother, Rubaba Hasanova, said the ICRC employees first met with her son a day after the capture.
"When they were registering the captives in their list, they couldn`t talk to Rafig, as he was unconscious. On October 16, they called on him again. Then, my son dictated a letter to them, and they wrote down what he said," Hasanova said.
The POW`s family members also wrote a letter to the serviceman and passed it over to the employees of the ICRC`s Barda office.
Rahman Hasanov, the captive`s father, said his son was being mistreated by other soldiers and sergeants during military service, and that he had complained about this to the Gazakh military prosecutor. The servicemen questioned at the prosecutor`s office in this regard confirmed this, he said.
As for the circumstances of his son`s capture, Hasanov said he had not been provided with any information to that end either at the prosecutor`s office or the military unit where he was serving. In the morning on October 8, a brawl flared up between Rafig and the soldiers that were purportedly mistreating him.
"I went to the military unit, and even to the checkpoint. One of the servicemen told me there that my son had disappeared at around nine o`clock, then he heard three bullet shots, but he did not say where the sound came from," Hasanov said.