Nagorno-Karabakh Human Rights Defender Report on Blockade

May 10, 2023

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"[EXCERPT] As a result, the ongoing blockade has physically obstructed the sole road of life of Artsakh for 5 months already (150 days), leaving its entire population, 120,000 people, including 30,000 children, in a state of total isolation, facing massive violations of individual and collective human rights, as well as multifaceted existential and security threats.

Along with the ongoing blockade of the Lachin corridor, Azerbaijan has also deliberately disrupted the operation of the critical infrastructure of Artsakh (natural gas supply, electricity supply, Internet and mobile communication) with the aim to further aggravate the already dire humanitarian crisis and cause excessive human sufferings to the Artsakh people."