He was extradited to Azerbaijan last Friday and immediately given a presidential pardon and freed. Armenia has broken diplomatic and all official ties with Hungary over the matter, which the Hungarian Foreign Ministry calls “regrettable”.

Demonstrations were also held outside Hungarian embassies in Kiev, Sofia and Oslo on Tuesday.

Former foreign minister László Kovács said the government ought to have asked for concrete guarantees that the murderer was not going to be pardoned in his homeland.

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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