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    Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
    Feb 2 2007

    AZERI SOLDIER ARRESTED AFTER RETURN FROM ARMENIAN CAPTIVITY


    Baku, 2 February: A soldier of the Azerbaijani army, Vusal Qaracayev,
    captured by Armenians on 7 December [2006] has been arrested, APA
    news agency has learnt from the republic's Military Prosecutor's
    Office. According to this report, criminal proceedings against
    Qaracayev have been instituted at the investigative department for
    serious crimes of the Military Prosecutor's Office under Articles 274
    (high treason) and 338.1 (abuse of rules of performance of military
    service) of the Criminal Code. An investigation is under way.

    We should note that Qaracayev, born in 1988, was called up this year
    [as published, actually last year] by the Balakan district military
    conscription office [northern Azerbaijan]. He was captured on 7
    December on the territory of Agdam [district partly occupied by
    Armenia] and freed on 23 December [2006].
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