Sabotage "on legal grounds": Azerbaijan to form frontline patrol units

PanARMENIAN.Net - Azeri President Ilham Aliyev ordered to initiate security measures at the front line between the Azerbaijani and Armenian armed forces, Abc.az reported.

The President sanctioned measures to prevent information leakage in mass media and web resources on dislocation and purpose of facilities of special importance to national security.

Sanctioned measures include strengthening of defense at the territories bordering the front line and forming of voluntary patrol units in the frontline zone.

The move might be Baku's attempt to justify deployment of so-called civilians at the line of contact at the Karabakh-Azei border.

The Cabinet of Ministers has been assigned to prepare a new version of the martial law within three months. The new version should take into account specific features of security regime in the frontline zone. Proposals on tightening liability for dissemination of secret information should be submitted within a month term. The same period of time has been provided for the Ministry of Defense to approve the order of coordination of journalists’ accreditation for their work and business trips to the front zone.

Usually, Azer serviceman taken hostage by Armenian side and returned to Baku are sentenced to a jail term of up to 15 years for divulgence of a military secret, with no consideration of circumstances, including their rank or the extent of their awareness.

The President’s Administration has been assigned to organize explanatory work among residents of settlements in the front zone regarding impermissibility of dissemination of information on armed forces dislocation, military and political situation. Special courses should be held for the Press Service employees.