A protest was held Thursday in Madrid, and in front of Hungarian Embassy of Spain, in connection with Hungary’s extradition of Ramil Safarov to Azerbaijan and his subsequent release.  

The demonstrators formed a human chain before the Embassy, and expressed their anger and protest with regard to the shameful Hungarian-Azerbaijani arrangement. Also, respective pamphlets were distributed to the Spaniards and foreigners who had gathered nearby the Hungarian Embassy.   

At the end of picket, the participating Spanish-Armenian community representatives were received by the Hungarian Embassy’s consul, to whom a protest-declaration was handed. 

On behalf of his government, the Hungarian diplomat expressed regret that the Azerbaijani leadership had broken its promise to not release the criminal.  

Armenian News-NEWS.am reported earlier that Ramil Safarov, a lieutenant in the Azerbaijani military, was extradited on August 31 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.

As expected, 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.

And Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan announced on August 31 that Armenia is suspending its diplomatic ties with Hungary.