The Council of Europe (COE) is interested in Alexander Lapshin's case. An information about Lapshin appeared in the “All alerts” section of the COE website.

It was reported that Aleksandr Lapshin, an Israeli-Russian travel blogger, was detained in Minsk, Belarus, on 15 December 2016, at the request from Azerbaijan and extradited to Baku on 7 February 2017.

Lapshin faces a maximum sentence of eight years in prison on charges of illegally crossing Azerbaijan's state borders during his April 2011, October 2012, and June 2016 visits to Nagorno-Karabakh, and for making "anti-state calls to the public" and criticizing Azerbaijani policies.

Currently, Alexander Lapshin is in the Kurdakhani Pre-trial Detention Centre of the Baku Investigative Prison Nr 1.

It should be noted that the section “All alerts” is for data on violations of media’s freedom. Then it is followed by reaction of representatives of the countries, where the rights are violated. It this case there is no reaction yet.

At the same time, Azerbaijan was mentioned in the section of “source of the threat”.