ALC executive director Siranush Sahakyan calls prisoner release a “transactional” deal

Editor’s note: This article was originally published in Armenian by Panorama, then translated into English by Horizon Weekly. Siranush Sahakyan, an international law specialist, prisoners’ rights representative at the European Court of Human Rights, and executive director of the Armenian Legal Center for Justice & Human Rights, has said that the return of four Armenian prisoners from Baku cannot be considered a purely humanitarian act, but rather the result of an unequal political tra