At 6:00 pm on Tuesday, August 23, Azerbaijani authorities returned Armenian citizen, 61-year-old Henrik Aghekyan who had crossed the border on August 13, Aysor reports.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had been negotiating Aghekyan’s return from the very beginning.

Several days into the Armenian’s detention in Azerbaijan, the ICRC representatives visited him providing information about his family.