BAKU KEEPS CLAIMING SAFAROV EXTRADITION

PanARMENIAN.Net
18.04.2006 20:41 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ “Extradition of Ramil Safarov to Azerbaijan is
possible and I hope it will take place.

This is possible only after a repeated consideration of the case by
Hungarian Court of Appeal though,” Safarov’s lawyer Adil Ismaylov
said. “According to the Strasbourg Convention of 1983, a person,
who has committed a crime abroad, can be extradited for serving his
sentence in his fatherland, provided that the punishment will not be
changed and he will not be released or pardoned,” he said.

In the Azeri lawyer’s words, consideration of the complaint of the
defense by the Court of Appeal may take a year and only after a
decision is passed “extradition may become possible.”

Ismaylov called “unfair” the decision of the Hungarian judge, who
sentenced Safarov to life imprisonment without the right of pardon
within 30 years. “Already at the first trial we felt Hungarians’
sympathy towards the Azeri officer. However, later the judge agreed
to screening a video material, which showed the headless corpse of
Gurgen Margaryan, which created a negative image of Safarov. The
judge also made a mistake, when he stated that Hungary can provide
a forth interpreter to Safarov (at that time he had interpreters
from Hungarian into Russian, Turkish and Azerbaijani), as he may
face life imprisonment. We were also discontent with the results of
two examinations, the conclusions of which did not always coincide,”
Adil Ismaylov specially stressed.