BAKU: Azeri president pardons army officer extradited from Hungary

President.az, Azerbaijan
Aug 31 2012

Azeri president pardons army officer extradited from Hungary

The Azerbaijani president has pardoned an army officer who has been
brought back home after spending years in Hungarian jail for murdering
an Armenian colleague in Budapest in 2004.

The official website of the president published a decree which said
that Ramil Safarov, born in 1977, and sentenced to life in prison
Hungary in 2006, was pardoned on 31 August.

[Translated from Azeri]

From: A. Papazian