[UN Human Rights] Press briefing note on Azerbaijan
Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Rupert Colville
We are seriously concerned about the case of Ramil Safarov, an Azerbaijani military officer who was sentenced to life in prison in Hungary for the brutal 2004 murder of an Armenian officer, Gurgen Markaryan, who was taking part in the same NATO training programme in Hungary. The murder was clearly ethnically motivated.
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