[governance] Azerbaijan persuaded Hungary to release a convicted murderer

[Narine Khachatryan]

*Azerbaijan persuaded Hungary to release a convicted murderer *


The Azeri serviceman, Ramil Safarov, was *given a life sentence *without
parole in 2006 by the Budapest City *Court* for axing to death an unarmed
Armenian Gurgen Markarian during a NATO-sponsored training program in 2004
in Budapest. The murder was done with a particular brutality: *Safarov *had
struck Markaryan *16* times with an *axe*, decapitating him while the
latter was sleeping in his dormitory room.


On Friday (August 31, 2012), Safarov was flown to his home
countryAzerbaijan from Hungary and upon arrival pardoned by president
Aliev. The
White House immediately criticized the decision to free convicted murderer,
and some US newspapers touched upon an Azerbaijan and Hungary’s  deal to
purchase by Azerbaijan of  3 billion euros in Hungarian bonds.

The Hungarian opposition started  demanding the resignation of the
Vice-Prime Minister of Hungary, minister of Justice Tibor Navracsics over
the freed prisoner, while Armenia cut off diplomatic ties with Hungary.  The
question remains, is semi-feudal and oil-rich Azerbaijan so powerful to buy
justice and engage a European country in its dishonest deals?




http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2012/08/197250.htm

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/08/31/statement-nsc-spokesman-tommy-vietor-azerbaijan-s-decision-pardon-ramil-?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl

http://www.armenianweekly.com/2012/08/31/obama-deeply-concerned-about-safarov-pardon/

http://iwpr.net/report-news/murder-case-judgement-reverberates-around-caucasus

http://budapest.sumgait.info/safarov-interrogation.htm


Narine Khachatryan
Media Education Center
Yerevan, Armenia

www.mediaeducation.am
www.safe.am
www.immasin.am
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