Another Court Session on Ramil Safarov's Case Due to Take Place in Budapest Today
Another court session on the case of Ramil Safarov, an Azerbaidjani military servant, who is indicted for murder of the Armenian military officer Gurgen Margaryan, will take place in Budapest today. At today's trial the results of the third forensic-medical expertise of Ramil Safarov will be revealed. According to the lawyer into the case of G. Margaryan's murder, Nazeli Vardanyan, who is a member of the International Union of Advocates, «the third expertise is based on comparison of the first two expertise». Under the Hungarian legislation, the court is not entitled to rule another expertise, which means that the trial will soon be over.
As earlier stated Nazeli Vardanyan, during the trial held September 27 experts, who had carried out the first and second medical examinations, produced their resolutions. During the first examination Safarov was declared sane. The second examination carried out with the mediation of the defense revealed elements of posttraumatic syndrome. Psychologist Yuhas Christin, who made the first examination, presented his viewpoint and the examination outcomes in detail. He stated that the people with post-traumatic syndrome can develop fear but by no means aggression. A person with such syndrome would never become an army officer and would never dare to commit a murder. Moreover, posttraumatic syndrome can hit people, who witnessed any tragic events, in part, "the events in Khodjaly," as the defense holds. However during the above mentioned events Safarov was in Baku and then left for Turkey. The attempts of expert Ildiko Kovach, who carried out the second examination, proved his being not professional. As representative of the Armenian Defense Ministry Hayk Demoyan said during a press conference in Budapest, Kovach insisted that when in Turkey Ramil Safarov took in a medicine called Xenex prescribed for people with posttraumatic syndrome. However Yuhas Christin said that such medicine was not in circulation at that time. According to Nazeli Vardanyan, posttraumatic syndrome is not rated as psychological disease and cannot be considered to be a mitigating circumstance. After the testimony of the experts the court decreed to hold the third examination to consider the previous ones and approve either of them.
To remind, February 19, 2004 Armenian Armed Forces lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan, who was taking an English course within NATO Partnership for Peace program was brutally hacked to death by Azeri officer Ramil Safarov. The latter was accused with Article 116.2 of the Hungarian Criminal Code, which provides for a punishment of 10-15 years of deprivation of liberty or life imprisonment.
As earlier stated Nazeli Vardanyan, during the trial held September 27 experts, who had carried out the first and second medical examinations, produced their resolutions. During the first examination Safarov was declared sane. The second examination carried out with the mediation of the defense revealed elements of posttraumatic syndrome. Psychologist Yuhas Christin, who made the first examination, presented his viewpoint and the examination outcomes in detail. He stated that the people with post-traumatic syndrome can develop fear but by no means aggression. A person with such syndrome would never become an army officer and would never dare to commit a murder. Moreover, posttraumatic syndrome can hit people, who witnessed any tragic events, in part, "the events in Khodjaly," as the defense holds. However during the above mentioned events Safarov was in Baku and then left for Turkey. The attempts of expert Ildiko Kovach, who carried out the second examination, proved his being not professional. As representative of the Armenian Defense Ministry Hayk Demoyan said during a press conference in Budapest, Kovach insisted that when in Turkey Ramil Safarov took in a medicine called Xenex prescribed for people with posttraumatic syndrome. However Yuhas Christin said that such medicine was not in circulation at that time. According to Nazeli Vardanyan, posttraumatic syndrome is not rated as psychological disease and cannot be considered to be a mitigating circumstance. After the testimony of the experts the court decreed to hold the third examination to consider the previous ones and approve either of them.
To remind, February 19, 2004 Armenian Armed Forces lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan, who was taking an English course within NATO Partnership for Peace program was brutally hacked to death by Azeri officer Ramil Safarov. The latter was accused with Article 116.2 of the Hungarian Criminal Code, which provides for a punishment of 10-15 years of deprivation of liberty or life imprisonment.
