Blogger Alexander Lapshin arrested in Minsk has filed a complaint to the Supreme Court of Belarus, his lawyer told NEWS.am.
Alexander Lapshin files complaint to Belarus Supreme Court
STEPANAKERT, FEBRUARY 6, ARTSAKHPRESS: The complaint has been registered by the Supreme Court, the lawyer added.
Currently, Russia and Israel are trying to achieve the cancellation of the decision on extraditing Lapshin.
After his visits to Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) in 2011 and 2012, 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. And on December 15, 2016, he was detained in the Belarus capital city of Minsk, and based on this international search.
On January 26, the Minsk city court dismissed the complaint of blogger Alexander Lapshin over the decision of the Belarusian prosecutor’s office to extradite him to Azerbaijan. On Monday two complaints will be filed with the Supreme Court of Belarus.
