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U.S. Senator urges immediate re-incarceration of Azeri ax-murderer
September 28, 2012 - 10:04 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - California Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) has
expressed her outrage over Azerbaijan's pardon, promotion and praise
for convicted axe-murderer Ramil Safarov, and called for his immediate
re-incarceration, reported the Armenian National Committee of America
(ANCA).
In a strongly worded letter to President Aliyev, Senator Boxer
stressed that Safarov's release is "deeply disturbing and provocative
action has only served to inflame tensions and endanger efforts to
forge a lasting peace in the Caucasus." Calling the Safarov's pardon a
"blatant disregard for the rule of law," she went on to demand that
Aliyev "adhere to the standards of the international law by returning
Safarov to jail, where he belongs, for the heinous crime that he
committed."
Last week, during the Center for European Policy Analysis'
U.S.-Central Europe Strategy Forum, Assistant Secretary of State Phil
Gordon told RFE/RL that the State Department continues "to express our
dismay and disappointment. We're not satisfied with what has happened
here. In our view this is someone who should have continued to serve
out his sentence and certainly we were appalled by the glorification
that we heard in some corridors of somebody who was convicted of
murder, and so no, we're not satisfied with the responses."
From: A. Papazian
September 28, 2012 - 10:04 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - California Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) has
expressed her outrage over Azerbaijan's pardon, promotion and praise
for convicted axe-murderer Ramil Safarov, and called for his immediate
re-incarceration, reported the Armenian National Committee of America
(ANCA).
In a strongly worded letter to President Aliyev, Senator Boxer
stressed that Safarov's release is "deeply disturbing and provocative
action has only served to inflame tensions and endanger efforts to
forge a lasting peace in the Caucasus." Calling the Safarov's pardon a
"blatant disregard for the rule of law," she went on to demand that
Aliyev "adhere to the standards of the international law by returning
Safarov to jail, where he belongs, for the heinous crime that he
committed."
Last week, during the Center for European Policy Analysis'
U.S.-Central Europe Strategy Forum, Assistant Secretary of State Phil
Gordon told RFE/RL that the State Department continues "to express our
dismay and disappointment. We're not satisfied with what has happened
here. In our view this is someone who should have continued to serve
out his sentence and certainly we were appalled by the glorification
that we heard in some corridors of somebody who was convicted of
murder, and so no, we're not satisfied with the responses."
From: A. Papazian