Israeli and Russian diplomats are trying to get permission to visit Alexander Lapshin, RIA Novosti reported quoting a member of Knesset, Ksenia Svetlova who participates in the fight against arrest of the blogger.

Svetlova said that Lapshin’s extradition took place very quickly.

“At the moment I'm in touch with his wife and we do not even know where he exactly is. Israeli consul is not allowed to him,” she said adding that representatives of the Israeli and Russian diplomatic missions are trying to get permission to visit him.

“I am very concerned about Alexander Lapshin's fate. Yesterday he was brought to Azerbaijan in absolutely extraordinary way.

 “He was in handcuffs accompanied by five armed people in masks as if he was at least [the leader of Islamic State group] Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. He is just an Israeli blogger. At the moment we don't even know where he is exactly and it can actually be really worrying,” Svetlova said.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Supreme Court of Belarus upheld the decision of the Prosecutor General on extraditing Alexander Lapshin to Azerbaijan.

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.

On January 26, the Minsk city court dismissed the complaint of blogger Alexander Lapshin over the decision of the Belarusian prosecutor’s office to extradite him to Azerbaijan.

The Supreme Court of Belarus on Tuesday dismissed the complaints filed in the case of blogger Alexander Lapshin.

According to the experts and human rights defenders, Lapshin’s case may become a horrible precedent limiting the freedom of speech of foreigners and freedom of movement of Armenian citizens.

 On Tuesday evening Blogger Alexander Lapshin was brought to Baku.