CORRECTED: Azerbaijan says detained former Karabakh separatist president Harutyunyan

Azerbaijan said Thursday it had detained an ex-president of its recently captured separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, which agreed to reintegrate with Azerbaijan in the wake of Baku's lighting offensive last month.

Azerbaijan said it had detained Arayik Harutyunyan, who stepped down shortly before Baku's offensive, "on suspicion of waging an aggressive war" against Azerbaijan and alleged war crimes, the prosecutor general and security service said in a joint statement.

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