Tuesday, September 8 2020 17:12

ArmInfo.The decision of the ECHR in the case "Makuchyan and Minasyan v. Azerbaijan and Hungary" was appealed to the Grand Chamber. Representative of the interests of the applicants Siranush Sahakyan announced this on her Facebook page.

To recall, according to the decision adopted in May of this year,  Azerbaijan, in connection with the release of officer Ramil Safarov,  who hacked Gurgen Margaryan to death with an ax in Budapest in 2004,  was found guilty of violating the European Convention, that is,  Article 2 (right to life) and article 14 (prohibition of  discrimination). At the same time, the court ordered the Azerbaijani  authorities to pay the complainants of the injured party an amount of  15,143 pounds sterling in legal costs.

The above-mentioned decision was appealed before its entry into legal  force. In particular, it was taken into account that the ECHR did not  ascribe to Azerbaijan the fact of the murder of Margaryan and the  attempted murder of Makuchyan, since, based on the decision of the  Hungarian court, Safarov acted as a private person. The defense also  points out that the European Court of Human Rights exempted Hungary  from responsibility.

It should be noted that on February 19, 2004, lieutenant of the  Armenian army Gurgen Margaryan, who was sent to Budapest for English  courses within the framework of NATO's Partnership for Peace program,  was brutally hacked to death with an ax by an Azerbaijani officer  Ramil Safarov, a participant in the same courses. On April 13, 2006,  the Budapest court of first instance sentenced Safarov to life  imprisonment without the right to pardon for 30 years. On August 31,  2012, Azerbaijani officer Ramil Safarov, sentenced to life in  Hungary, was extradited to his homeland.

On the same day, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree  on his pardon. The Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan paid the killer  the salary that had accumulated for the entire time that he was in  prison (more than eight years), provided him with an apartment, and  also awarded him the rank of major. In connection with the  extradition of Safarov, Armenia suspended diplomatic relations and  all official ties with Hungary.