e-3424 (Foreign affairs)
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the Government of Canada
- On September 27, 2020, at the height of global pandemic, Azerbaijan backed by Turkey launched an unprovoked military attack against the Artsakh population;
- The ceasefire statement brokered by the Russian Federation was signed on November 9, 2020, by Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia to end the second Artsakh war;
- To this day Azerbaijan holds captive more than 200 Armenian prisoners of war (POWs) in violation of the Geneva Conventions and the aforementioned ceasefire statement section 8 “the Parties shall exchange prisoners of war, hostages and other detained persons, and dead bodies;”
- According to an HRW report, Azerbaijani forces degrade and torture Armenian POWs; and
- Azerbaijan is bound by the prohibition of torture and inhumane treatment in international law as articulated in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the European Convention of Human Rights.
- Open for signature
- May 18, 2021, at 11:01 a.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- June 17, 2021, at 11:01 a.m. (EDT)
- Presented to the House of Commons
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Bryan May
(Cambridge)
June 22, 2021 (Petition No. 432-01208)