April 11, 2006 - 20:14 AMT
Committee to Protect Safarov Demands Delay of Announcing Verdict
"The Budapest city court is influenced by Armenian lobby and therefore will not pass a fair verdict regarding the Azerbaijani officer," Head of the Committee to Protect Ramil Safarov's Rights Akif Naghi said in Baku. In his words, the Committee demands that the trial scheduled April 13 be postponed and the court staff be replaced.

The Committee also believes that Azerbaijan's parliamentary group for relations with the Hungarian Parliament should leave for Budapest as soon as possible. In addition, the Azerbaijani parliament should hold a debate on Safarov's case at Hungarian Parliament, a large media group should be sent to Budapest, and his extradition should be achieved irrespective of the verdict on him, APA reports.