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By Rashid Shirinov

Blogger Alexander Lapshin, who is under arrest in Azerbaijan, hopes that he will be released upon the court decision, his lawyer Eduard Chernin told Trend on June 5.

Chernin said he has met with Lapshin in the medical center of a detention facility in Baku.

“Lapshin continues his medical treatment,” the lawyer noted. “The detention conditions are normal.”

Chernin added that the investigation on the criminal case filed against Lapshin has been completed and now the case is being reviewed. Then the files will be sent to the court.

Blogger Lapshin, who owns citizenship of several countries, will stand trial in Baku for his illegal visits to the occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.

The blogger illegally visited Azerbaijan`s Armenia-occupied lands and now is charged under the articles 281.2 (appeals directed against state) and 318.2 (illegal border crossing) of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan. He violated Azerbaijani laws on state border in April 2011 and October 2012.

Helped by his accomplices in the occupied territories, Lapshin paid a number of visits to Azerbaijan`s occupied lands, where he voiced support for "independence" of the illegal regime, and made public calls against Azerbaijan`s internationally recognized territorial integrity on April 6 and June 29, 2016.

The blogger was arrested in Minsk in late 2016 and transferred to Baku in February 2017.

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Rashid Shirinov is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow him on Twitter: @RashidShirinov

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