Azerbaijani authorities decided to criminalize visits of foreigners to Nagrono-Karabakh. The prosecutor’s office of Azerbaijan said they are taking the necessary steps to have Alexander Lapshin extradited from Belarus.
According to Azerbaijani media, Lapshin is detained by the authorities of Belarus. The reason for extradition is his visits to Karabakh in 2011 and 2012 and his notes in a blog.
The story began several years ago when Lapshin explained how he appeared in the black list of Azerbaijan. A person who did not name himself wrote to Lapshin that his traveler’s notes are very interesting, but asked to immediately delete those about his trip to Karabakh, otherwise he would be included in the black list.
Lapshin said he would not delete anything and called the list “nonsense and an anecdote”. The man threatened to include him in the black list in a minute and warned not “to underestimate them”.
There have been no reports on the decision of Belarus authorities yet.
