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SAFAROV EXTRADITION: HOW AZERBAIJAN DECEIVED HUNGARY
PanARMENIAN.Net
August 31, 2012 - 20:19 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Hungary's Ministry of Public Administration and
Justice has commented on the extradition of Armenian officer's murderer
Ramil Safarov to Azerbaijan.
According to the ministry, Baku assured Budapest that "informed the
Ministry of Public Administration and Justice of Hungary that Ramil
Safarov's sentence will not be converted but will immediately be
continued to be enforced, according to the Hungarian judgment."
When the deceit surfaced it was already too late.
In response to PanARMENIAN.Net rsquo;s inquiry, the ministry cited
the 1983 Strasbourg Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons,
which says that "a person sentenced in the territory of a Party may be
transferred to the territory of another Party, in accordance with the
provisions of the Convention, in order to serve the sentence imposed
on him."
According to the information provided by the Ministry of Justice of
Azerbaijan, under the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan the act for which
the sentence was imposed constitutes a criminal offence that may be
punished by life imprisonment.
Persons sentenced to life imprisonment may, at the earliest, be
conditionally released after serving a period of twenty-five years.
However, Safarov was granted a presidential pardon almost immediately
after his arrival in Azerbaijan.
PanARMENIAN.Net
August 31, 2012 - 20:19 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Hungary's Ministry of Public Administration and
Justice has commented on the extradition of Armenian officer's murderer
Ramil Safarov to Azerbaijan.
According to the ministry, Baku assured Budapest that "informed the
Ministry of Public Administration and Justice of Hungary that Ramil
Safarov's sentence will not be converted but will immediately be
continued to be enforced, according to the Hungarian judgment."
When the deceit surfaced it was already too late.
In response to PanARMENIAN.Net rsquo;s inquiry, the ministry cited
the 1983 Strasbourg Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons,
which says that "a person sentenced in the territory of a Party may be
transferred to the territory of another Party, in accordance with the
provisions of the Convention, in order to serve the sentence imposed
on him."
According to the information provided by the Ministry of Justice of
Azerbaijan, under the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan the act for which
the sentence was imposed constitutes a criminal offence that may be
punished by life imprisonment.
Persons sentenced to life imprisonment may, at the earliest, be
conditionally released after serving a period of twenty-five years.
However, Safarov was granted a presidential pardon almost immediately
after his arrival in Azerbaijan.