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Interfax, Russia
Sept 1 2012
Hungary insists it extradited Azeri convict lawfully
BAKU. Sept 1
Hungary transferred Azeri officer Ramil Safarov, who was sentenced by
a Budapest court to life for killing an Armenian serviceman in 2006,
to Baku in line with the 1983 Strasbourg Convention on the Transfer of
Sentenced Persons, the Hungarian Justice Ministry said in an official
statement.
"Both Azerbaijan and Hungary are parties to the Convention, which was
promulgated by Act No. of 1994 by the Hungarian Parliament. Under the
Convention, 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. To that end, such a person may express his interest to the
sentencing State or to the administering State in being transferred
under the Convention," the ministry said in a statement, an
English-language version of which is available on its website.
"The competent authorities of the administering State shall continue
the enforcement of the sentence or convert the sentence, through a
judicial or administrative procedure, into a decision of that State,"
it said.
Safarov's transfer to Azerbaijan fully complied with the Convention, it said.
Hungary transferred 11 convicts in 2010, 7 in 2011, and 8 in 2012
under the Convention, the ministry said.
It was reported earlier that Hungary had extradited Safarov to
Azerbaijan on Friday. The same day, the president of Azerbaijan
granted him parole.
Safarov was earlier found guilty of killing Armenian officer Gurgen
Markarian for defiling the Azeri national flag while both officers
were taking an English-language course under the NATO auspices in
Budapest in 2004. A Budapest court sentenced Safarov to life without
the right to parole during the first 30 years of his conviction on
April 13, 2006.
va
From: Baghdasarian
Sept 1 2012
Hungary insists it extradited Azeri convict lawfully
BAKU. Sept 1
Hungary transferred Azeri officer Ramil Safarov, who was sentenced by
a Budapest court to life for killing an Armenian serviceman in 2006,
to Baku in line with the 1983 Strasbourg Convention on the Transfer of
Sentenced Persons, the Hungarian Justice Ministry said in an official
statement.
"Both Azerbaijan and Hungary are parties to the Convention, which was
promulgated by Act No. of 1994 by the Hungarian Parliament. Under the
Convention, 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. To that end, such a person may express his interest to the
sentencing State or to the administering State in being transferred
under the Convention," the ministry said in a statement, an
English-language version of which is available on its website.
"The competent authorities of the administering State shall continue
the enforcement of the sentence or convert the sentence, through a
judicial or administrative procedure, into a decision of that State,"
it said.
Safarov's transfer to Azerbaijan fully complied with the Convention, it said.
Hungary transferred 11 convicts in 2010, 7 in 2011, and 8 in 2012
under the Convention, the ministry said.
It was reported earlier that Hungary had extradited Safarov to
Azerbaijan on Friday. The same day, the president of Azerbaijan
granted him parole.
Safarov was earlier found guilty of killing Armenian officer Gurgen
Markarian for defiling the Azeri national flag while both officers
were taking an English-language course under the NATO auspices in
Budapest in 2004. A Budapest court sentenced Safarov to life without
the right to parole during the first 30 years of his conviction on
April 13, 2006.
va
From: Baghdasarian