{"id":278584,"date":"2017-02-08T13:16:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T09:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am\/?p=278584"},"modified":"2017-02-08T13:20:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T09:20:57","slug":"russian-blogger-lapshins-extradited-to-azerbaijan-will-not-stop-tourist-influx-to-karabakh-armenias-foreign-ministry-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2017\/02\/08\/russian-blogger-lapshins-extradited-to-azerbaijan-will-not-stop-tourist-influx-to-karabakh-armenias-foreign-ministry-says.html","title":{"rendered":"Russian Blogger&#8217;s Extradition to Baku Will &#8216;Not Stop Tourist Influx&#8217; to Karabakh, Armenia&#8217;s Foreign Ministry Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/lapshin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-278575\" src=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/lapshin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russian blogger Aleksandr Lapshin was extradited on February 7 to Baku from Minsk, hours after the Belarusian Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling to hand him over to Baku. Lapshin, who is also a citizen of Israel and Ukraine, was detained in Minsk in December after Azerbaijani prosecutors accused him of making anti-state calls and illegally crossing the state border of Azerbaijan, and put the blogger on an international wanted list for visiting Nagorno-Karabakh without the permission of Azerbaijan authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Upon his arrival in Baku late on Tuesday, Lapshin was taken to a State Security Service detention facility by officers donning camouflage uniforms and black masks.<\/p>\n<p>Tigran Balayan, spokesperson of Armenia&#8217;s ministry of foreign affairs, issued a statement on Wednesday morning in connection with Lapshin&#8217;s extradition, insisting that \u201cit is beyond doubt that the influx of political and public figures, artists, journalists, and tourists to Artsakh will not stop but will multiply.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe persecution of Alexander Lapshin, his extradition to Azerbaijan is a gross violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of speech and movement, which once again demonstrates the existing gap between dictatorship and democracy,\u201d Balayan stated.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon his arrival in Baku late on Tuesday, Lapshin was taken to a State Security Service detention facility by officers donning camouflage&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":278577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[66443,10265,10672,24711],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}