Azerbaijan jails 13 Armenian military personnel for six years

Azerbaijan’s serious crimes court says those sentenced will be deported after serving their prison terms.

An Azerbaijan court has sentenced 13 members of Armenia’s armed forces to six years in prison, finding them guilty of illegally crossing the border, weapons possession and terrorism offences. Armenia had no immediate reaction to the sentencing, which was delivered late on Thursday. Azerbaijan and Armenia fought a six-week war last year in which Azeri troops drove ethnic Armenian forces out of swathes of territory they had long controlled in and around the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave.