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ARMENIAN JUSTICE MINISTRY TAKING STEPS ON SAFAROV'S CASE
NEWS.AM
February 06, 2013 | 17:32
YEREVAN. - Armenian Ministry of Justice has taken steps in all
directions on international appealing of Safarov's pardon. Minister
of Justice Hrayr Tovmasyan said in the parliament on Wednesday.
His remark came in response to the question of MP from the ruling
Republican Party of Armenia Hayk Babukhanyan what steps the Armenian
Government is taking on international appeal of Azerbaijani killer
Ramil Safarov's pardon.
According to Tovmasyan, as it is not considered appropriate to spread
or distribute the details of the steps, he can only say that experts
are involved.
Safarov, a lieutenant in the Azerbaijani military, was extradited
on August 31 from Hungary, where he was serving a life sentence-and
with no expression of either regret or remorse-for the premeditated
axe murder of Armenian lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan, in his sleep,
during a NATO Partnership for Peace program in Budapest back in
2004. As expected, Ramil Safarov's return to Baku was welcomed, as
was his act of murder, by the officials of president Ilham Aliyev's
government and much of Azerbaijani society, and the Azerbaijani
president immediately granted him a pardon and he was declared a
national hero. On the same day Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan
announced that Armenia is suspending its diplomatic ties with Hungary.
NEWS.AM
February 06, 2013 | 17:32
YEREVAN. - Armenian Ministry of Justice has taken steps in all
directions on international appealing of Safarov's pardon. Minister
of Justice Hrayr Tovmasyan said in the parliament on Wednesday.
His remark came in response to the question of MP from the ruling
Republican Party of Armenia Hayk Babukhanyan what steps the Armenian
Government is taking on international appeal of Azerbaijani killer
Ramil Safarov's pardon.
According to Tovmasyan, as it is not considered appropriate to spread
or distribute the details of the steps, he can only say that experts
are involved.
Safarov, a lieutenant in the Azerbaijani military, was extradited
on August 31 from Hungary, where he was serving a life sentence-and
with no expression of either regret or remorse-for the premeditated
axe murder of Armenian lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan, in his sleep,
during a NATO Partnership for Peace program in Budapest back in
2004. As expected, Ramil Safarov's return to Baku was welcomed, as
was his act of murder, by the officials of president Ilham Aliyev's
government and much of Azerbaijani society, and the Azerbaijani
president immediately granted him a pardon and he was declared a
national hero. On the same day Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan
announced that Armenia is suspending its diplomatic ties with Hungary.