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HUNGARY'S OMBUDSMAN REQUESTS FULL REPORT ON AZERI TRANSFER CASE
ARMRADIO.AM
11.09.2012 14:40
Hungary's ombudsman Mon Monday asked for an all-inclusive report
concerning the transfer of life-sentenced Azeri national Ramil Sahib
Safarov from the justice minister.
The ombudsman's office expects information on the preparation of
the transfer to Azerbaijan, on preliminary cabinet decisions, their
reasons and background, and on an alleged written guarantee from the
Azeri government to keep Safarov behind bars, ombudsman Mate Szabo
wrote in a statement sent to MTI on Monday, politics.hu reports.
Safarov, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for killing
an Armenian in Budapest in 2004, was transferred from Hungary to
Azerbaijan on August 31. On arrival in Baku, he was pardoned by the
president and released. Armenia suspended diplomatic relations with
Hungary later that day.
The ombudsman recalled that Hungarian laws stipulate that a transfer
can only take place if the receiving country assures the sender about
upholding and continuing the sentence the convict received.
Earlier in the day, Socialist lawmaker Gergely Barandy, member of
parliament's constitutional committee, had requested access to the
documents relating to Safarov's transfer. Members of parliament's
constitutional committee will be given access to the papers, the
committee's chairman Laszlo Salamon, of the co-ruling Christian
Democrats, said on Monday, quoting a letter by Justice Minister
Tibor Navracsics.
ARMRADIO.AM
11.09.2012 14:40
Hungary's ombudsman Mon Monday asked for an all-inclusive report
concerning the transfer of life-sentenced Azeri national Ramil Sahib
Safarov from the justice minister.
The ombudsman's office expects information on the preparation of
the transfer to Azerbaijan, on preliminary cabinet decisions, their
reasons and background, and on an alleged written guarantee from the
Azeri government to keep Safarov behind bars, ombudsman Mate Szabo
wrote in a statement sent to MTI on Monday, politics.hu reports.
Safarov, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for killing
an Armenian in Budapest in 2004, was transferred from Hungary to
Azerbaijan on August 31. On arrival in Baku, he was pardoned by the
president and released. Armenia suspended diplomatic relations with
Hungary later that day.
The ombudsman recalled that Hungarian laws stipulate that a transfer
can only take place if the receiving country assures the sender about
upholding and continuing the sentence the convict received.
Earlier in the day, Socialist lawmaker Gergely Barandy, member of
parliament's constitutional committee, had requested access to the
documents relating to Safarov's transfer. Members of parliament's
constitutional committee will be given access to the papers, the
committee's chairman Laszlo Salamon, of the co-ruling Christian
Democrats, said on Monday, quoting a letter by Justice Minister
Tibor Navracsics.