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No foreign attorney for Lapshin – Azerbaijani lawyer

Society Materials 9 February 2017 15:53 (UTC +04:00)
Blogger Alexander Lapshin, extradited to Azerbaijan on Feb. 7, can not be offered a foreign attorney
No foreign attorney for Lapshin – Azerbaijani lawyer

Baku, Azerbaijan, Feb. 9

By Samir Ali – Trend:

Blogger Alexander Lapshin, extradited to Azerbaijan on Feb. 7, can not be offered a foreign attorney, Lapshin’s attorney Safar Huseynov told Trend.

He said he met with his client on Feb. 9 and asked him about his health and detention conditions. Lapshin said everything was fine, and he had no complaints.

Alexander Lapshin is a citizen of several countries and has had a criminal conspiracy with Armenians living in the occupied Azerbaijani territories. He also illegally visited these territories.

Lapshin is accused of violating Azerbaijani laws on state border in April 2011 and October 2012. In order to promote the illegal regime created in the Azerbaijani territories occupied by Armenia, Lapshin presented Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh as an “independent state” on his social media account, and supporting the “independence” of the unrecognized regime he made public incitements aimed at violating Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity on April 6 and June 29, 2016.

On Jan. 17, Alexei Stuk, deputy prosecutor general of Belarus, issued a ruling on Lapshin’s extradition to Azerbaijan. Lapshin was brought to Azerbaijan on Feb. 7. Earlier, the Supreme Court of Belarus rejected the complaint filed by Lapshin’s lawyer regarding his extradition to Azerbaijan.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts. The 1994 ceasefire agreement was followed by peace negotiations.

Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding districts.

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