Murderer of Armenian Officer Will Not Be Extradited to Azerbaijan

PanARMENIAN.Net - There are no intergovernmental agreements between Hungary and Azerbaijan providing for extradition, Hayk Demoyan, an Armenian Defense Ministry representative on the Budapest trial on the case of murder of an Armenian officer, stated when answering a question of a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. In his words, the Armenian party checked intergovernmental agreements between Hungary and Azerbaijan via all diplomatic channels and did not find any agreements of the kind. «When Ramil Safarov's lawyer Adil Ismaylov mentions extradition, he merely misleads the Azeri society,» Demoyan remarked. He also emphasized that no matter how much effort the Azeri party makes to present Safarov as «a hero», the murder of the Armenian officer with aggravation caused irremediable moral damage to Azerbaijan.



February 19, 2004 lieutenant of the Armed Forces of Armenia Gurgen Margaryan, sent to Budapest to take English courses within the NATO Partnership for Peace Program, was brutally hacked by Azeri officer, who took the same courses. Safarov is indicted in compliance with article 116.2 of the Criminal Code of Hungary (murder, committed with special cruelty, and attempt at lives of over one person), which provides for punishment varying from imprisonment of 10-15 years to life sentence.