AZERI STUDENTS IN UK PROTEST AT HUNGARIAN SENTENCE AGAINST OFFICER

Lider TV, Baku
2 May 06

[Presenter] Azerbaijani students are protesting outside the Hungarian
embassy in the UK against the sentence handed down by a Hungarian judge
and are demanding that the Hungarian government deliver a fair ruling
[on Azerbaijani officer Ramil Safarov sentenced to life imprisonment
on charges of killing his Armenian counterpart at a NATO course in
Budapest in 2004]. Our correspondent Xalil Elvaroglu has details of
the protest from London.

[Correspondent by phone] [Azerbaijani] students studying in London and
other British cities are holding a protest outside the UK embassy in
Hungary. The protest was organized by the club of young Azerbaijanis in
London. The organization’s chairman, Vusal Hamzayev, is now delivering
a speech. He said in his speech [changing tack], they said in their
statement that charges levelled against Ramil Safarov coincided with
those levelled by the Armenians. That’s to say the Budapest court
adopted a decision that could be expected from a Yerevan court. This
decision should be changed and a fair sentence should be handed down
on Ramil. London police officers are here and they are ensuring the
students’ security. The students keep coming now. The statement will be
submitted to the Hungarian embassy in London in a few minutes. There
are a lot of students there. Representatives of the Hungarian embassy
have not turned up yet. They are just watching our protest from the
embassy’s windows.