Belarusian President Demands Lapshin’s Extradition to Azerbaijan
February 3, 2017
Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka on Feb 3, 2017 (Photo: Agence France-Presse)
MINSK, Belarus (RFE/RL)””Ignoring warnings from Russia and Armenia, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday ordered law-enforcement authorities in Belarus to speed up the extradition to Azerbaijan of a Russian-Israeli blogger arrested by them because of his trips to the Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) Republic.
Lukashenko defended the December 14 arrest and said the blogger, Alexander Lapshin, should have been handed over to Baku “long ago.”
