Azerbaijani security forces did not arrest Artsakh National Security Service (NSS) director Ararat Melkumyan. This was reported by the Armenian portal 24News with reference to your source.
“Reports about the arrest of the head of the Artsakh National Security Service, Ararat Melkumyan, are not true,” the publication writes.
The message that Azerbaijanis detained and arrested Major General Melkumyan on the Akari Bridge, distributed MediaHub.
Before that, it was known that the former head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), David Babayan, was arrested. Moreover, the diplomat knew that he would be arrested and requestedHe is on the blacklist of Azerbaijani authorities.
Former Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Minister of State Ruben Vardanyan, who was detained while trying to go to Armenia on September 27, was also arrested. Her accused financing terrorism, creating armed groups and illegally crossing the Azerbaijani border. Vardanyan was kept in an isolation ward for four months.
Previously in Stepanakert shots were fired Russian-Azerbaijani patrol.