Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
April 14 2006

Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry: `We’ll try to commute unfair verdict
on Ramil Safarov’

[ 14 Apr. 2006 13:24 ]

`The Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan does not agree to the unfair
verdict passed on Azerbaijani army officer Rami Safarov for murdering
Armenian army officer Gurgen Markarian in Hungary,’ the spokesman for
the Defense Ministry Ilgar Verdiyev told APA. He said that Safarov’s
lawyer will appeal against the verdict.

`Ramil Safarov is the officer of the Defense Ministry. We’ll take
necessary steps to defend our officer, to commute the unfair verdict
on him,’ Verdiyev said.
Verdiyev also said the Ministry will defray all expenses for legal
defense of Ramil Safarov.
The Budapest court yesterday sentenced the Azerbaijani army officer
Ramil Safarov to life in prison. /APA/