Minister: Ministry of Internal Affairs performed its function  properly in issue of Kamil Zeynalli

ArmInfo. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Armenia has not received a response from the  Russian side regarding the extradition of Azerbaijani blogger Kamil Zeynalli.  Head of the department, Vahe Ghazaryan, told reporters on February 25.

However, spokesperson of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Narek  Sargsyan said that the response had been received and forwarded to  the Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Armenia.

Vahe Ghazaryan emphasized that the Ministry of Internal Affairs  performed its function properly, without deviating from the current  issuance procedure. "This is a procedure: if a wanted person is  detained, the country in which this happened makes a request, and we  answer whether he is wanted by us or not. We have confirmed that he  is wanted by us," he said.

When asked how it happened that Zeynalli was released so quickly, the  minister noted that there had previously been cases when wanted  people who were detained were later released.

As ArmInfo previously reported, on the evening of February 20,  Russian law enforcement officers detained Azeri national Kamil  Zeynalli, at Moscow Domodedovo Airport. The latter killed civilians  of Artsakh on camera during the 44-day war of 2020, called for  violence against Armenians. The most sensational was the video where  he kills a defenseless Artsakh old man like a sacrificial lamb. 

"This is my third time in Russia, but I was detained only now. I hope  for the support of our government agencies. Currently I am in the  police department. I hope everything will be settled," Kamil Zeynalli  himself said in a video message on social networks in connection with  the detention. The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry responded to the  situation and reported that the issue of the detention of Kamil  Zeynalli at Domodedovo Airport in Moscow is under the control of the  Azerbaijani Embassy in Russia.

On the evening of February 21 it became known in the evening that  Kamil Zeynalli was released and left for Azerbaijan, where the  murderer was greeted as a national hero, according to the already  established tradition in Azerbaijan.