According to the facts collected by the RA HRD staff, on January 12, around 3:30 p.m., the Azerbaijani side deliberately cut the communication wires coming from Armenia to Artsakh in the Shushi area (place of the blockade), disrupting the access to telecommunications and fixed internet in the entire territory of Artsakh. Artsakh HRD Gegham Stepanyan wrote about this on his Facebook page.
“Taking advantage of the fact that the infrastructures coming to Artsakh pass through the territories under Azerbaijani control, the Azerbaijani side deliberately paralyzes the work of vital infrastructures, the clear evidence of which is the gas supply disruptions (March 2022, December 2022), the restoration of high-voltage electric wires on January 9 obstructing, periodic disruptions of the Internet and mobile communication in the territory of Artsakh.
In the conditions of the complete siege of Artsakh, this method of sub-structural intimidation aims to subject the civilian population of Artsakh to additional suffering and create unbearable human conditions in Artsakh.
Azerbaijan’s behavior insulted the agenda of human rights, humanitarian values, and civilization. States and international structures, and first of all the co-chair countries of the OSCE Minsk Group, Russia, the USA, France, are obliged to end Azerbaijani criminal tolerance and impunity.”
