Municipal court of Minsk dismissed Russian-Israeli blog writer  Lapshin`s complaint related to his extradition on Baku`s demand 

ArmInfo.Municipal Court of Minsk has left unchanged Belarusian Prosecutor General's decision on Russian-Israeli blog writer Alexander Lapshin's extradition on Baku's demand for his visit to Nagorno Karabakh.

Minsk municipal court has discussed the complaint for several hours at the session on January 26 and dismissed the complaint explaining its decision with  lawfulness of the decision made by the Prosecutor's Office. Chairman  of Armenia's Chamber of Advocates Ara Zohrabyan stated that there is  only one option left -to apply to the Supreme Court of Belarus within  10 days. 

To remind, on January 20 General Prosecutor's Office of Belarus  fulfilled request of Azerbaijan's General Prosecutor's Office on  extradition of Russian and Israeli citizen famous blog writer  Alexander Lapshin to Azerbaijan. In the middle of December the  citizen of the Russian Federation Alexander Lapshin has been arrested  in the Republic of Belarus with the purpose of extradition on the  demand of Azerbaijan for visiting Nagorno-Karabakh and making notes  about those visitations in his blog. Lapshin is included in  Azerbaijan's black list for visiting Karabakh and he was forbidden to  enter Azerbaijan.  However, in June 2015 Lapshin arrived in  Azerbaijan via Georgia with his Ukrainian passport. After that  Azerbaijan put him on wanted list for violation of the law on state  border and migration code of the country.  

To note, Sergey Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister stated at the  annual press conference in Moscow, commenting the detention of  Russian-Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin in Minsk due to  Azerbaijan's request for his visit to Nagorno Karabakh. "Russia is  against criminalization of journalists or simply private persons  visiting any region", he said. "Second, we are against extradition of  Russian nationals arrested in any country, to third countries. We had  consular contact with Lapshin, we know that he is also an Israeli  citizen and Israeli diplomats had contact with him as well. We will  take all the steps to solve this situation within the respect to all  the rights of Russian citizen, which is also an Israeli citizen,"  Lavrov accentuated.