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Justice Minister of Armenia calls on his Hungarian counterpart to resign
arminfo
Saturday, September 1, 13:01
Justice Minister of Armenia Hrayr Tovmasyan has responded to the
Hungarian authorities actions i.e. to extradition of Azerbaijani
criminal sentenced for life imprisonment in Hungary for vicious murder
of a sleeping Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan.
"I am deeply disappointed and indignant at the fact of Ramil Safarov
extradition by the Hungarian Ministry for Public Administration and
Justice. Safarov committed murder - a crime condemned by the mankind
now and always," the minister said.
European values are all-human. The 1983 Strasbourg Convention on the
Transfer of Sentenced Persons provides a possibility for a prisoner to
be extradited just on the basis of human values. However, Europe has
also other important values such as justice and inevitability of
punishment. I am sure that you should know that you have extradited a
person that committed murder for hostile reasons to the country where
he is a hero. Your should have understood that making a murderer
hero is a slap in the face of the Hungarian justice system and the
general values of Europe, which is a center of humanity where a human
being, his life, fundamental rights and freedoms are the highest
value.
Let me cast a doubt on your sincerity and do not believe that you had
enough assurances of the Azerbaijani party to transfer Safarov. You
should have demanded guarantees that the criminal would continue
serving his sentence even after extradition. And even in that case you
had no right to extradite such criminal being well aware that his deed
has made him a hero in Azerbaijan. On your place I would resign.
Nevertheless, even your resignation will not help you avoid the image
of a person that justifies a murderer. Gurgen Margaryan's family,
the Armenian people and the progressive mankind will remember you as
such. Considering the aforementioned and basing on the statement by
President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, the Justice Ministry of Armenia
breaks both the bilateral relations with the Ministry for Public
Administration and Justice of Hungary and the relations within the
Council of Europe and other international organizations," reads the
statement of the Armenian justice minister addressed to his Hungarian
counterpart Tibor Navracsics.
From: Baghdasarian
arminfo
Saturday, September 1, 13:01
Justice Minister of Armenia Hrayr Tovmasyan has responded to the
Hungarian authorities actions i.e. to extradition of Azerbaijani
criminal sentenced for life imprisonment in Hungary for vicious murder
of a sleeping Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan.
"I am deeply disappointed and indignant at the fact of Ramil Safarov
extradition by the Hungarian Ministry for Public Administration and
Justice. Safarov committed murder - a crime condemned by the mankind
now and always," the minister said.
European values are all-human. The 1983 Strasbourg Convention on the
Transfer of Sentenced Persons provides a possibility for a prisoner to
be extradited just on the basis of human values. However, Europe has
also other important values such as justice and inevitability of
punishment. I am sure that you should know that you have extradited a
person that committed murder for hostile reasons to the country where
he is a hero. Your should have understood that making a murderer
hero is a slap in the face of the Hungarian justice system and the
general values of Europe, which is a center of humanity where a human
being, his life, fundamental rights and freedoms are the highest
value.
Let me cast a doubt on your sincerity and do not believe that you had
enough assurances of the Azerbaijani party to transfer Safarov. You
should have demanded guarantees that the criminal would continue
serving his sentence even after extradition. And even in that case you
had no right to extradite such criminal being well aware that his deed
has made him a hero in Azerbaijan. On your place I would resign.
Nevertheless, even your resignation will not help you avoid the image
of a person that justifies a murderer. Gurgen Margaryan's family,
the Armenian people and the progressive mankind will remember you as
such. Considering the aforementioned and basing on the statement by
President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, the Justice Ministry of Armenia
breaks both the bilateral relations with the Ministry for Public
Administration and Justice of Hungary and the relations within the
Council of Europe and other international organizations," reads the
statement of the Armenian justice minister addressed to his Hungarian
counterpart Tibor Navracsics.
From: Baghdasarian