Azerbaijani authorities presented the death certificate of Armenian captive Manvel Saribekyan to the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC), Ashot Astabatsyan, a representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) told NEWS.am. The certificate will be given to Saribekyan's family, he said.

Astabatsyan stressed IRCR is engaged in a confidential dialogue with Azerbaijani authorities aiming at repatriation of Armenian war prisoners. The return of Manvel Saribekyan's body is also being discussed, he stated.

As NEWS.am reported previously, referring to the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry, the Azerbaijani mass media reported Manvel Saribekyan, an alleged member of the Armenian "diversion" group committed a suicide on October 5. A strangulation scar was discovered on Saribekyan's neck, characteristic to a hanged person.

"Despite the Armenian side's comments that Saribekyan was a lost shepherd, who was looking for his missing cattle and crossed the Armenia-Azerbaijani border, Azerbaijan persistently said Saribekyan was a member of an Armenian diversion group. Then the Azerbaijani propaganda machine spread an "interview" with M. Saribekyan through Youtube, in which he says he had been trained for terrorist acts on Azerbaijan's territory. However, the expert assessment of the video came to a conclusion that Saribekyan was filmed under physical and psychological pressure," the Armenian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

Armenia applied to the U.N., European Union, CE and OSCE and demanded participation of an Armenian expert in Saribekyan's postmortem examination. 

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