Former Artsakh State Minister Ruben Vardanyan has called on Armenia’s Human Rights Defender, Anahit Manasyan, to take urgent and sustained action regarding Armenian prisoners held in Azerbaijan, including by organizing an official visit to Baku and facilitating family visits, amid concerns over their conditions and lack of independent oversight. “I am writing to you from detention, in connection with circumstances that, in my view, call for the active and sustained engagement of the institution you lead,” Vardanyan said in the statement conveyed through his family. Vardanyan said he recently met with Azerbaijan’s Ombudsman Sabina Aliyeva, during which he raised “a number of specific concerns, relating to everyday conditions, medical care, legal...