An Armenian court today sentenced twenty-year-old Husein Akhundov, one of the two Azerbaijani servicemen who illegally crossed the Armenian border on April 7, to twenty years behind bars.

Akhundov had confessed to killing of Hayrapet Meliksetyan, an employee of the Zangezur Copper Molybdenum Combine.

Agshin Babirov, the other soldier who illegally crossed into Armenia from Nakhijevan with Akhundov, was sentenced to 11.5 years in prison in May.