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The investigation of the case into Alexander Lapshin will take at least one or two months, since it still has not presented grounds for the charge against the blogger who is in custody in Baku.

Lapshin’s attorney, Edward Chernin, stated the aforementioned, reported RIA Novosti news agency of Russia.

“Despite the charges attributed to Russian Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin, the investigation has not yet put forward any grounds for them” noted Chernin.

In his words, Lapshin still does not know what, specifically, he is charged with.

“There is no material in our hands to object to something,” added the attorney. “And it seems the investigation will take at least one to two months.”

The last time he met with Lapshin was on March 9, and Chernin informed that his client had no complaints.

In the attorney’s words, his motions may be as regards to commuting the precautionary measure of arrest of his client.

“Lapshin doesn’t pose a threat to the public, and he can be released from custody during investigation,” added Edward Chernin. “But, on the other hand, where can he stay in Baku? Here he has no home and relatives, to whom he would be handed and kept under surveillance.”

After his visits to Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) in 2011 and 2012, Israeli Russian blogger and journalist Alexander Lapshin was “blacklisted” by Azerbaijan.

In June 2016, however, he paid a visit to Azerbaijan--but with a Ukrainian passport--and, subsequently, he published several articles criticizing the Azerbaijani authorities.

Afterward, Azerbaijan issued an international search for this famous blogger. On December 15, 2016, Lapshin was detained in the Belarusian capital city of Minsk, and based on this search.

On January 26 of the current year, the Minsk city court dismissed the blogger's appeal of the Belarusian General Prosecutor's Office decision to extradite him to Azerbaijan.

On February 7, the Supreme Court of Belarus dismissed the appeals that were filed into this case, and upheld the aforesaid decision by the General Prosecutor’s Office.

And on the evening of the same day, Belarus extradited Alexander Lapshin to the Azerbaijani capital city of Baku, where he was taken into custody.

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