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The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has started the procedure of communication with Azerbaijani authorities, in connection with the case involving Blogger Alexander Lapshin, the latter himself told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

“This means that Azerbaijan’s representative at the ECHR has received my petition with the accusation of attempted murder presented [against] the country’s leadership,” Lapshin said. “They [the Azerbaijani authorities] have been given three months to submit objections.

“[But] I’m honestly interested in to what those [Azerbaijani] gentlemen will object to the at once four independent forensic medical commissions in Israel, US, Russia and the Netherlands, [and] which have accepted that what happened to me in Baku was attempted murder.”

In late 2016, Israeli, Russian, and Ukrainian citizen blogger Alexander Lapshin was detained in Belarus, and based on his international arrest warrant by Azerbaijan. Baku had “blacklisted” him fo visiting Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) without getting Azerbaijan’s “consent.”

Subsequently, Belarus extradited Lapshin to Azerbaijan, and a court in capital city Baku sentenced him to three years in prison.

But on September 11, 2017 Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev signed an executive order of granting pardon to this blogger.

Lapshin left Azerbaijan on September 14 and went to Israel.

It turned out, however, that Alexander Lapshin had been close to committing suicide in the Baku prison.

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