Azerbaijani family that sought asylum in Armenia has left for another country

Azerbaijani family that sought asylum in Armenia has left for another country –

The Azeri family of the Orujevs that received asylum in Armenia in early December 2014 has left Armenia for a third country, the State Migration Service of Armenia has told ArmInfo.

Asked where the family has gone and why, State Migration Agency chief Gagik Yeganyan told reporters that they are exercising their right to free movement. “A refugee – whether form Azerbaijan, Syria or elsewhere –  is not obliged to inform any authorized governmnet body of his or her departure,” he said.

In a statement in 2014 Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) unveiled some details of the case, in particular, suggesting that 37-year-old citizen of Azerbaijan Javid Orujev, his wife and three children applied to the Armenian side at the Bagratashen checkpoint at the Armenian-Georgian border on January 29.

According to the NSS, Orujev was under pressure from Azerbaijan’s special services ever after marrying a Baku resident of Armenian origin. In particular, he had been forced into trying to obtain data about Armenia and its Diaspora through the relatives of his ethnic Armenian wife, identified as 30-year-old Roya Mirzoyeva, and for that purpose he also unsuccessfully tried to become a resident of a European country.