ARMENIAN DEFENSE ATTORNEYS TO ATTEND RAMIL SAFAROV’S COURT HEARING
Armenpress
Feb 14 2007
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 14, ARMENPRESS: An Armenian defense attorney
Nazeli Vardanian and Hayk Demoyan, who is director of Genocide
Museum in Yerevan, will fly February 19 or 20 to Budapest, Hungary,
to attend a court of appeals hearing of an appeal filed by lawyers
of an Azerbaijani army officer Ramil Safarov.
Last year a Hungarian court sentenced Ramil Safarov to life
imprisonment without the right to apply for parole for the next 30
years for hacking to death on February 19, 2004 Armenian army officer
Gurgen Margarian, 26.
Both were participants of an English language training course within
the framework of the NATO-sponsored "Partnership for Peace" program
held in Budapest, Hungary.
Demoyan said chances that Safarov may be extradited to serve his
prison term in his native Azerbaijan, as his lawyers demand, are
very and very little. He said Hungary’s judiciary has no precedent
of extraditing a convict sentenced to life in prison.