Two sentenced in Armenia on spying charges
YEREVAN – A Yerevan court on Monday sentenced two people charged with spying for Azerbaijan.
Gevorg Ayrapetyan, an Armenian citizen, was sentenced to twelve years in jail, while Bahman Bagheri, an ethnic Azerbaijani citizen of Iran, was handed down a ten-year impsironment term at the end of a closed-door trial.
The indictment claimed that Ayrapetyan had passed on information about the Armenian armed forces to Azerbaijan’s secret service agencies with Bagheri’s help.
Both defendants were detained in 2009.
Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in conflict for two decades.
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