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PACE HOLDS DEBATE ON SAFAROV'S CASE
news.am
October 04, 2012 | 20:10
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has launched
debate on Ramil Safarov's case.
Earlier, opening the autumn session, PACE head Jean Claude Mignon
said glorification of the heinous crime committed by Safarov is
unacceptable. "I deeply regret the obtaining of a pardon for a
criminal through the use of a legal instrument of the Council of
Europe developed for truly "humanistic" purposes," he added.
Armenian News-NEWS.am reported earlier that Ramil Safarov, a lieutenant
in the Azerbaijani military, was extradited on August 31 from Hungary,
where he was serving a life sentence-and with no expression of
either regret or remorse-for the premeditated axe murder of Armenian
lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan, in his sleep, during a NATO Partnership
for Peace program in Budapest back in 2004.
As expected, Ramil Safarov's return to Baku was welcomed, as was
his act of murder, by the officials of president Ilham Aliyev's
government and much of Azerbaijani society, and the Azerbaijani
president immediately granted him a pardon.
Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan announced on August 31 that Armenia
is suspending its diplomatic ties with Hungary.
From: A. Papazian
news.am
October 04, 2012 | 20:10
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has launched
debate on Ramil Safarov's case.
Earlier, opening the autumn session, PACE head Jean Claude Mignon
said glorification of the heinous crime committed by Safarov is
unacceptable. "I deeply regret the obtaining of a pardon for a
criminal through the use of a legal instrument of the Council of
Europe developed for truly "humanistic" purposes," he added.
Armenian News-NEWS.am reported earlier that Ramil Safarov, a lieutenant
in the Azerbaijani military, was extradited on August 31 from Hungary,
where he was serving a life sentence-and with no expression of
either regret or remorse-for the premeditated axe murder of Armenian
lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan, in his sleep, during a NATO Partnership
for Peace program in Budapest back in 2004.
As expected, Ramil Safarov's return to Baku was welcomed, as was
his act of murder, by the officials of president Ilham Aliyev's
government and much of Azerbaijani society, and the Azerbaijani
president immediately granted him a pardon.
Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan announced on August 31 that Armenia
is suspending its diplomatic ties with Hungary.
From: A. Papazian