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BAKU ATTEMPTING TO JUSTIFY AXE-KILLER SAFAROV RELEASE AND GLORIFICATION
November 16, 2012 - 17:05 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Azerbaijan's permanent representative to the
United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva Murad
Najafbayli has addressed a letter to the President of the Human Rights
Council to justify Azeri President Ilham Aliyev's decision on pardoning
axe-killer Ramil Safarov.
As a justification for the immoral step, Najafbayli cited articles
of 1983 Strasbourg Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons,
under which the sentenced person in the territory of a Party may
be transferred to the territory of another Party according to the
earlier reached agreement. However, as lawyers repeatedly stated,
both Hungary and Azerbaijan violated the Convention, under which the
sentenced persons must serve their terms in their own countries out of
humanitarian motives, instead of being released once back to homeland.
Najafbayli further noted "Baku's giving a national hero welcome to
Safarov as not true to fact." However, he kept silent about the warm
welcome the murderer received in Baku and the statements claiming "the
axe-killer must serve an example for young Azerbaijanis." Moreover,
the envoy attempted to pin the Safarov crime on Armenia and Nagorno
Karabakh liberation war, whilst keeping silent about Baku's promises
to purchase Hungarian securities worth Euro 2-3 billion in exchange
for Safarov transfer.
Ramil Safarov, the Azerbaijani army officer who was serving a life
sentence in Hungary for axing to death Armenian Lt. Gurgen Margaryan,
was extradited to Azerbaijan and pardoned by Azerbaijani President
Ilham Aliyev.
Official Yerevan reacted by suspending diplomatic ties with Hungary.
Hungary, however, states that it had sent Safarov back to Azerbaijan
after receiving assurances from the Azerbaijani Justice Ministry that
Safarov's sentence, which included the possibility of parole after
25 years, would be enforced.
According to some reports, Safarov was extradited to Azerbaijan in
exchange for Azeri purchase of Hungarian securities worth Euro 2-3
billion, an information official Budapest denies.
"Hungarian prime minister is "morally bankrupt" and should resign
after admitting that he personally approved the transfer of the Azeri
axe murderer while knowing the likely consequences," the leader of
the opposition Socialists said earlier.
Attila Mesterhazy said it was clear from Orban's comments at a news
conference on September 11 that he had been aware that Azerbaijan
would release the life-sentenced Ramil Safarov after his repatriation.
November 16, 2012 - 17:05 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Azerbaijan's permanent representative to the
United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva Murad
Najafbayli has addressed a letter to the President of the Human Rights
Council to justify Azeri President Ilham Aliyev's decision on pardoning
axe-killer Ramil Safarov.
As a justification for the immoral step, Najafbayli cited articles
of 1983 Strasbourg Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons,
under which the sentenced person in the territory of a Party may
be transferred to the territory of another Party according to the
earlier reached agreement. However, as lawyers repeatedly stated,
both Hungary and Azerbaijan violated the Convention, under which the
sentenced persons must serve their terms in their own countries out of
humanitarian motives, instead of being released once back to homeland.
Najafbayli further noted "Baku's giving a national hero welcome to
Safarov as not true to fact." However, he kept silent about the warm
welcome the murderer received in Baku and the statements claiming "the
axe-killer must serve an example for young Azerbaijanis." Moreover,
the envoy attempted to pin the Safarov crime on Armenia and Nagorno
Karabakh liberation war, whilst keeping silent about Baku's promises
to purchase Hungarian securities worth Euro 2-3 billion in exchange
for Safarov transfer.
Ramil Safarov, the Azerbaijani army officer who was serving a life
sentence in Hungary for axing to death Armenian Lt. Gurgen Margaryan,
was extradited to Azerbaijan and pardoned by Azerbaijani President
Ilham Aliyev.
Official Yerevan reacted by suspending diplomatic ties with Hungary.
Hungary, however, states that it had sent Safarov back to Azerbaijan
after receiving assurances from the Azerbaijani Justice Ministry that
Safarov's sentence, which included the possibility of parole after
25 years, would be enforced.
According to some reports, Safarov was extradited to Azerbaijan in
exchange for Azeri purchase of Hungarian securities worth Euro 2-3
billion, an information official Budapest denies.
"Hungarian prime minister is "morally bankrupt" and should resign
after admitting that he personally approved the transfer of the Azeri
axe murderer while knowing the likely consequences," the leader of
the opposition Socialists said earlier.
Attila Mesterhazy said it was clear from Orban's comments at a news
conference on September 11 that he had been aware that Azerbaijan
would release the life-sentenced Ramil Safarov after his repatriation.