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ARMENIANS PROTEST AT HUNGARIAN EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON AGAINST EXTRADITION OF AZERI MURDERER
Politics.hu
Sept 10 2012
Hungary
Some fifty American Armenians demonstrated at the Hungarian embassy
in Washington, DC, on Sunday local time against the transfer home
of Azeri axe-murderer Ramil Safarov who had been sentenced to life
imprisonment for killing an Armenian in Budapest.
Aram Hamparian, executive director of Armenian National Committee
of America, welcomed the US Department of State's condemnation
of Safarov's transfer and the fact that he was released with a
presidential pardon after arriving home on August 31. He told MTI that
Hungarian Ambassador Gyorgy Szapary would receive representatives of
his organisation on Monday.
Armenian portal news.am reported early on Monday that the Human Rights
Committee of the European Parliament is scheduled to discuss Safarov's
extradition at a meeting on Thursday. Austrian MP and member of the
committee Ulrike Lunacek was quoted saying that they will demand from
the Azerbaijani authorities to revoke Safarov's higher military rand
which recognised him as a national hero and to imprison him.
The Hungarian parliament and government must demand a written
explanation fromAzerbaijan's authorities about the reasons why Baku
broke its promise to continue Safarov's sentence.
"By trusting Azerbaijan's promises, the government of Hungary made
a mistake in this matter. Azerbaijan's authorities and President
Ilham Aliyev bear responsibility for the current regional tension,"
she added.
Monday's daily Nepszava reported that Hungary's claims that the
government acted in good faith when transferring Safarov home might
be untrue. The paper quoted Ali M. Hasanov, national adviser to the
President of Azerbaijan, who told news portal Media-forum that the
Hungarian authorities had known that Safarov would be released after
his transfer home.
Members of parliament's constitutional committee will be given access
to documents relating Safarov's transfer, the committee's chairman
Laszlo Salamon, of the co-ruling Christian Democrats, said on Monday
quoting a letter by Justice Minister Tibor Navracsics.
Salamon said committee member Gergely Barandy, of the main opposition
Socialists, had reqested acess to the documents.
http://www.politics.hu/20120910/armenians-protest-at-hungarian-embassy-in-washington-against-extradition-of-azeri-murderer/
From: A. Papazian
Politics.hu
Sept 10 2012
Hungary
Some fifty American Armenians demonstrated at the Hungarian embassy
in Washington, DC, on Sunday local time against the transfer home
of Azeri axe-murderer Ramil Safarov who had been sentenced to life
imprisonment for killing an Armenian in Budapest.
Aram Hamparian, executive director of Armenian National Committee
of America, welcomed the US Department of State's condemnation
of Safarov's transfer and the fact that he was released with a
presidential pardon after arriving home on August 31. He told MTI that
Hungarian Ambassador Gyorgy Szapary would receive representatives of
his organisation on Monday.
Armenian portal news.am reported early on Monday that the Human Rights
Committee of the European Parliament is scheduled to discuss Safarov's
extradition at a meeting on Thursday. Austrian MP and member of the
committee Ulrike Lunacek was quoted saying that they will demand from
the Azerbaijani authorities to revoke Safarov's higher military rand
which recognised him as a national hero and to imprison him.
The Hungarian parliament and government must demand a written
explanation fromAzerbaijan's authorities about the reasons why Baku
broke its promise to continue Safarov's sentence.
"By trusting Azerbaijan's promises, the government of Hungary made
a mistake in this matter. Azerbaijan's authorities and President
Ilham Aliyev bear responsibility for the current regional tension,"
she added.
Monday's daily Nepszava reported that Hungary's claims that the
government acted in good faith when transferring Safarov home might
be untrue. The paper quoted Ali M. Hasanov, national adviser to the
President of Azerbaijan, who told news portal Media-forum that the
Hungarian authorities had known that Safarov would be released after
his transfer home.
Members of parliament's constitutional committee will be given access
to documents relating Safarov's transfer, the committee's chairman
Laszlo Salamon, of the co-ruling Christian Democrats, said on Monday
quoting a letter by Justice Minister Tibor Navracsics.
Salamon said committee member Gergely Barandy, of the main opposition
Socialists, had reqested acess to the documents.
http://www.politics.hu/20120910/armenians-protest-at-hungarian-embassy-in-washington-against-extradition-of-azeri-murderer/
From: A. Papazian