The Armenian National Committee of South America delivered a letter to the Ambassador of Belarus in Argentina in protest for the decision to extradite the Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin to Azerbaijan, Prensa Armenia reported.

“We wish to convey our most sincere concern over the decision of the Republic of Belarus to grant the extradition of the digital journalist Alexander Lapshin to the Republic of Azerbaijan,” said the letter signed by the Armenian National Committee of South America and Armenian Youth Federation of South America.

“As Argentine citizens descendants of Armenians we need to transmit you that we consider extremely dangerous for Lapshin to be handed over to the Azerbaijan authorities, and we hope to be able to arrange a meeting as soon as possible so that we can discuss the matter, ” finished the text.

Currently, Russia and Israel are trying to achieve the cancellation of the decision on extraditing Lapshin.

After his visits to Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) in 2011 and 2012, Alexander Lapshin was “blacklisted” by Azerbaijan. In June 2016, however, he paid a visit to Azerbaijan, but with a Ukrainian passport. Subsequently, he issued several articles criticizing the Azerbaijani authorities. Afterward, the Azerbaijani authorities issued an international search for this famous blogger. And on December 15, 2016, he was detained in the Belarus capital city of Minsk, and based on this international search.

Blogger Alexander Lapshin arrested in Minsk has filed a complaint to the Supreme Court of Belarus.