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Israel to continue efforts not to allow blogger’s extradition to Azerbaijan, for visiting Karabakh

Israel’s official position is not to permit Belarus to extradite Israeli citizen Alexander Lapshin to Azerbaijan.

Israel to continue efforts not to allow blogger’s extradition to Azerbaijan, for visiting Karabakh

Israel to continue efforts not to allow blogger’s extradition to Azerbaijan, for visiting Karabakh

STEPANAKERT, JANUARY 23, ARTSAKHPRESS: Israel’s deputy chief of mission in the Belarusian capital city of Minsk, Julia Racinski-Spivakova, told the aforementioned to NEWS.am.

In her words, Israel will continue the respective efforts, together with its associates of Belarus, and Russia—since blogger Lapshin is also a Russian citizen.

Racinski-Spivakova recalled however, that the Israeli embassy in Minsk is not empowered to intervene in the legal process, and therefore it solely can provide consulting services to the blogger, who is in custody in Belarus.

“As far as we know, Lapshin’s attorneys will be filing an appeal against the decision of the [Belarus] prosecutor’s office,” added the Israeli embassy official.

After his visits to Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) in 2011 and 2012, famous blogger Alexander Lapshin was “blacklisted” by Azerbaijan.

In June 2016, however, he paid a visit to Azerbaijan, but with a Ukrainian passport. Subsequently, he issued several articles criticizing the Azerbaijani authorities. Afterward, the Azerbaijani authorities issued an international search for this famous blogger.

On December 15, 2016, he was detained in the Belarus capital city of Minsk, and based on this international search.

Baku demands his extradition to Azerbaijan, and for visiting Artsakh.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, however, had spoken against such extradition.

The US Department of State also had reflected on this matter.

And on January 17, the Prosecutor’s Office of Belarus decided to grant the Baku authorities’ request for Alexander Lapshin’s extradition to Azerbaijan. It is noteworthy, however, that the prosecutor’s office had concealed this information for about two days.


     

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