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.