Safar Huseynov, the attorney of blogger Alexander Lapshin who is in custody in Azerbaijan, met with his client on February 9, according to Trend news agency of Azerbaijan.

The source added that Lapshin’s wife, Ekaterina, had a telephonic conversation with the lawyer.

“Today, I spoke by phone with Lapshin’s wife,” said Huseynov. “I informed her about her husband’s situation, detention conditions, and the course of investigation.” 

In his words, the  embassies of Russia and Israel in Baku are following this case, since the blogger is a citizen of these two countries.

In December 2016, Israeli Russian blogger Alexander Lapshin was detained in the Belarusian capital city of Minsk. The reason was his being on the international wanted persons’ list, due to a search which Azerbaijan had declared. Baku accuses him of visiting Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) without its consent.

And on February 7 of the current year, Belarus extradited the blogger to the Azerbaijani capital city of Baku, where he was taken into custody.

But the last time when attorney Huseynov met with his client was on February 9; this means that the Azerbaijani lawyer has visited Lapshin only once.