July 28, 2004 - 23:07 AMT
THIRD ARMENIAN RUNAWAY TO BAKU SUFFERS FROM MENTAL DISORDER
Ispir Ghazarian, the Armenian, who arrived in Baku and yielded himself to the Azeri authorities, suffers from mental disorder, Regnum IA reports according to reliable sources in Yerevan. After serving his sentence in 1968 and 1975, he had persecution mania. He wrote letters to Bush, Pope, Margaret Tatcher and Gorbachev. 65-year-old Ghazarian many times underwent treatment in Armenian mental hospitals. In 1994 he arrived to Baku via Tbilisi wishing to move to the US. According to the source, during the examination the members of the International Red Cross stated him as mentally ill and brought him to Sadakhlo, to the Georgian-Armenian border for his future transportation to Armenia. To note, Ghazarian is the third to have tried to move to third countries through Azerbaijan. Roman Terzian and Arthur Apresian, who are kept in a cell of the Azeri ministry of national security at present, arrived in Baku in April.