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Investigation on blogger Lapshin's case ends

Investigation on the criminal case of blogger Alexander Lapshin, who is under arrest in Azerbaijan, is completed, Lapshin’s lawyer Eduard Chernin told TASS.

Investigation on blogger Lapshin's case ends

Investigation on blogger Lapshin's case ends

STEPANAKERT, MAY 26 , ARTSAKHPRESS: He noted that Lapshin and he could familiarize with the materials of the case, later the materials would be sent to court.

According to Chernin, Lapshin is still in the medical center of the detention facility where he was placed in mid-April with a diagnosis of tachycardia. As Chernin noted, Lapshin feels good.

After his visits to Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) in 2011 and 2012, blogger and journalist Alexander Lapshin—who is a citizen of Russia, Israel, and several other countries—was “blacklisted” by Azerbaijan.

In June 2016, however, he paid a visit to Azerbaijan--but with a Ukrainian passport--and, subsequently, he published several articles criticizing the Azerbaijani authorities.

Afterward, Azerbaijan issued an international search for this famous blogger. On December 15, 2016, Lapshin was detained in the Belarusian capital city of Minsk, and based on this search.

On January 26 of the current year, the Minsk city court dismissed the blogger's appeal of the Belarusian General Prosecutor's Office decision to extradite him to Azerbaijan.

On February 7, the Supreme Court of Belarus dismissed the appeals that were filed into this case, and upheld the aforesaid decision by the General Prosecutor’s Office.

And on the evening of the same day, Belarus extradited Alexander Lapshin to the Azerbaijani capital city of Baku, where he was taken into custody.


     

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