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AZERBAIJANI OFFICER SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR MURDERING ARMENIAN. A [[Budapest]] district court on April 13, [[2006]] sentenced Lieutenant Ramil Safarov to life imprisonment for the "premeditated, malicious, and cruel" murder in February [[2004]] of Lieutenant [[Gurgen Markarian]], an Armenian fellow participant on a [[NATO]] language-training course, dpa reported. Safarov will be eligible for parole after serving 30 years of his sentence. In [[Baku]], the [[Karabakh]] Liberation Organization staged a demonstration on [[April 14]] to protest the verdict, day.az reported. Some 100 students tried to stage a similar protest in Baku on April 17, but were forcibly prevented by police who briefly detained up to 50 of them, day.az reported the following day. The Azadliq opposition bloc released a statement on April 15 terming the verdict unjust in light of Safarov's youth and the fact that members of his family died in the [[Karabakh war]], but warning at the same time against feting Safarov as a hero, day.az reported on April 17. LF

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==External links==
[http://budapest.sumgait.info/ Budapest Case] - information about the murder of Gurgen Margaryan, including eyewitness' testimonies.

[[Category:Armenian Individuals|Margarian, Gurgen]]