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  • Budapest: Ramil Sahib Safarov's Sentence Will Continue To Be Enforce

    RAMIL SAHIB SAFAROV'S SENTENCE WILL CONTINUE TO BE ENFORCED BY AZERBAIJAN

    Ministry of Public Administration and Justice of Hungary
    Sept 4 2012

    Ramil Sahib Safarov, an Azerbaijani national imprisoned in Hungary
    since 19 February 2004, sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering
    Gurgen Margaryan, an Armenian national, has requested - pursuant to
    the 1983 Strasbourg Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons
    - his transfer to Azerbaijan in order to serve his sentence in
    Azerbaijan. (Communication of the Ministry of Public Administration
    and Justice of Hungary)

    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 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. In case of continued enforcement the
    administering State shall be bound by the legal nature and duration
    of the sentence as determined by the sentencing State.

    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.

    The Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan has further informed the
    Ministry of Public Administration and Justice of Hungary that Ramil
    Sahib Safarov's sentence will not be converted but will immediately
    be continued to be enforced, according to the Hungarian judgment.

    Since the conditions specified in the Convention for the transfer of
    sentenced persons have been met in Ramil Sahib Safarov's case, his
    transfer has been authorized by the Minister of Public Administration
    and Justice and Ramil Sahib Safarov has today been transferred to
    Azerbaijan.

    Under the Convention, the enforcement of the sentence shall be governed
    by the law of the administering State and that State alone shall be
    competent to take all appropriate decisions. In 2010 eleven sentenced
    persons, in 2011 seven sentenced persons while in 2012 eight sentenced
    persons were and have been transferred abroad from Hungary under the
    Convention,. Hungary does act and is, in Ramil Sahib Safarov's case
    as well, acting in compliance with the rules of international law.

    (Communication of the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice
    of Hungary)

    http://www.kormany.hu/en/ministry-of-public-administration-and-justice/news/ramil-sahib-safarov-s-sentence-will-continue-to-be-enforced-by-azerbaijan



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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