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Today RA Deputy Ministers of Justice Yeghishe Kirakosyan and Ruben Melikyan told the journalists that according to their information the applicants require to identify the right to life and prohibition of discrimination, prescribed in 2nd and 14th Article of the European Convention on Human Rights. According to the Armenian side, those rights were violated in transfer of the murderer by the Hungarian side to Azerbaijan, and for the former by granting him a pardon, even justifying and making a hero.  The group of attorneys is comprised of: Siranush Sahakyan, Narine Gasparyan, Nazeli Vardanyan, the representative of G.Margaryan and H.Mukuchyan in the Hungarian court and foreign lawyers.

 

It should be noted that in accordance with European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Armenian side will be involved in the processes as a third party. 

 

Armenia's Ministry of Justice is convinced that the transfer of the murderer by Hungary, and the granting of forgiveness by the President of Azerbaijan, his actual justification and making a hero, are gross violations of International Law, so the Armenian side have taken and will continue to take all the steps to fix the fact of the violation by authoritative international bodies and in the capacities of international law for the recovery of the violation of law. 

 

The deputy ministers informed that on October 9, 2012, the RA Ministry of Justice submitted an application to the expert group of Council of Europe on criminal cases demanding to discuss the proportionality of the Article 12 of Strasbourg Convention on the Transfer of Prisoners (which reserves the right to grant pardon and amnesty) to Azerbaijan, from the perspective of international law. 

 

RA Ministry of Justice is preparing an application to be submitted to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination based on Article 11 of the UN Convention. In the application the Armenian side will draw the attention of the international structure of the anti-discrimination policy and the campaign of hatred against Armenians in Azerbaijan.