Hungary's Ombudsman has conveyed his Armenian colleague a report related to extradition of Ramil Safarov.

In his report, Ombudsman condemned the actions of Hungarian authorities, in particular actions of the Justice Ministry.

The report indicated that by approving extradition, the minister did not demand any guarantees that he will be put to jail in homeland. The minister had to take into account that the nations of Hungary and Azerbaijan have different approach to the convict and the crime he had committed. The report says that such an approach threatens principle of rule of law.

As reported earlier, Ramil Safarov, a then-lieutenant in the Azerbaijani military, was extradited on August 31, 2012 from Hungary, where he was serving a life sentence—and with no expression of either regret or remorse—for the premeditated axe murder of Armenian lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan, in his sleep, during a NATO Partnership for Peace program in Budapest back in 2004. Safarov had planned on killing the other Armenian military serviceman, who likewise was attending the aforesaid program, but he was unable to carry out this plan.

Ramil Safarov’s return to Baku was welcomed, as was his act of murder, by the officials of president Ilham Aliyev’s government and much of Azerbaijani society, and the Azerbaijani president immediately granted him a pardon, he was declared a national hero, promoted to a higher military rank, and was allocated housing and pension.

And Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan announced on August 31, 2012 that Armenia is suspending its diplomatic ties with Hungary. Also, Sargsyan instructed the Ministry of Justice to take all measures to petition to the international judicial tribunals, and with respect to the Safarov case.