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  • Safarov Extradition: How Azerbaijan Deceived Hungary

    SAFAROV EXTRADITION: HOW AZERBAIJAN DECEIVED HUNGARY

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    August 31, 2012 - 20:19 AMT

    PanARMENIAN.Net - Hungary's Ministry of Public Administration and
    Justice has commented on the extradition of Armenian officer's murderer
    Ramil Safarov to Azerbaijan.

    According to the ministry, Baku assured Budapest that "informed the
    Ministry of Public Administration and Justice of Hungary that Ramil
    Safarov's sentence will not be converted but will immediately be
    continued to be enforced, according to the Hungarian judgment."

    When the deceit surfaced it was already too late.

    In response to PanARMENIAN.Net rsquo;s inquiry, the ministry cited
    the 1983 Strasbourg Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons,
    which says that "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."

    According to the information provided by the Ministry of Justice of
    Azerbaijan, under the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan the act for which
    the sentence was imposed constitutes a criminal offence that may be
    punished by life imprisonment.

    Persons sentenced to life imprisonment may, at the earliest, be
    conditionally released after serving a period of twenty-five years.

    However, Safarov was granted a presidential pardon almost immediately
    after his arrival in Azerbaijan.

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