{"id":247,"date":"2014-05-27T14:08:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T14:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=247"},"modified":"2014-05-27T14:12:53","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T14:12:53","slug":"committee-condemns-the-use-of-a-european-convention-by-azerbaijan-in-the-safarov-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"Committee condemns the use of a European Convention by Azerbaijan in the Safarov case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">PACE\u2019s Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights\u2019s condemned the use of Article 12 of the European Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons by Azerbaijan in the case of Ramil Safarov, \u201cas a violation of the principles of good faith in international relations and of the rule of law\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons provides for the transfer of foreign prisoners to their home countries. Its purpose is primarily humanitarian, to improve prospects of rehabilitation and reintegration of prison inmates into society.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_248\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248\" style=\"width: 120px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin-info.hhd.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PACE-Christopher-Chope-UK.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-248 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin-info.hhd.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PACE-Christopher-Chope-UK.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher Chope<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The draft resolution adopted, based on the report by Christopher Chope (United Kingdom, EDG), notes with concern that the Convention was invoked in order to justify the immediate release upon transfer to Azerbaijan of Ramil Safarov, an Azerbaijani soldier convicted for murdering a fellow Armenian participant of a NATO \u201cPartnership for Peace\u201d training course in Hungary. Upon his arrival in Azerbaijan, he was welcomed as a national hero, granted an immediate pardon, long before the expiry of the minimum sentence set by the Hungarian court, a retroactive promotion as well as other rewards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The text underlines that the Convention \u201cis not designed to be used for the immediate release of prisoners upon return to their own country\u201d. It underscores the importance of \u201capplying the Convention in good faith and, in interpreting its provisions, adhering to the principles of the rule of law\u201d, in particular in transfer cases that might entail political or diplomatic implications.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The draft resolution should be presented for debate to the Assembly later in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>PACE\u2019s Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights\u2019s condemned the use of Article 12 of the European Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons by <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=247\" title=\"Committee condemns the use of a European Convention by Azerbaijan in the Safarov case\">[more &gt;&gt;&gt;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azerbaijan","category-azerbaijan-human-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}