A protest was held in front of Belarusian embassy in Armenia in light  of blog writer Lapshin`s extradition

ArmInfo. In front of the Belarusian Embassy in Armenia a protest was held in the light of extradition of Russian-Israeli blog writer Alexander Lapshin to 

Azerbaijan.  

"The extradition to the state, Armed Forces of are using 

ISIS methods to wage a war, is a serious strike to the free speech 

and movement. We condemn the actions of Belarus as well as Armenia's 

Foreign Ministry's inactivity. What is doing the Armenian Ambassador 

in Belarus? We think the Ambassador should be withdrawn as well as 

the Belarusian Ambassador should leave Yerevan", said the 

Parliamentarian, the opposition bloc "Elc" member Edmond Marukyan to 

journalists in front of the Embassy. He also recalled that a lot of 

people, including politicians, journalists, cultural figures visited 

Nagorno-Karabakh, but this event is a precedent from the point of 

view of chasing those who were in Artsakh.  In his turn, the 

opposition Deputy Nicol Pashinyan, told the bloc's statement, "On 

February 7, Minsk extradited the Russian-Israeli blog writer Lapshin, 

to Bacu, where a criminal case is opened on the fact of "illegal" 

visit to Nagorno Karabakh. In Bacu airport armed commandos wearing 

masks, which had an obviously demonstrative line, accompanied Lapshin 

as a dangerous criminal. "Elc" condemns the Belarusian Governments 

actions, aimed at trampling on freedom of speech and movement of 

citizens and finds the given action an insult to Armenian nation. 

Moreover, the given action shows the formality of the alliance 

between Armenia and Belarus in CSTO and EEU, and those relations can 

not be a guaranty to Armenias security. "Elc" demands the Armenian 

Authorities to withdraw its Ambassador and freeze the relations with 

Belarus".  Pashinyan also criticized the work of the Foreign Ministry 

of Armenia. He noted that the extradition of Lapshin is a slap in the 

face of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Eduard Nalbandian 

and Serzh Sargsyan. "If we do not want the Armenian nation to get a 

slap as well, the Belarusian Ambassador should leave Armenia, and our 

Ambassador, in his turn, should return home", Pashinyan noted. 

In front of the embassy of Belarus in Armenia gathered a few dozen 

demonstrators who chanted "go", "free and sovereign Artsakh". None 

came out to the demonstrators from the Embassy of Belarus, only 

through <intercom" offered to put all the letters and offers in the 

special embassy mailbox. 

On February 7, the Supreme Court of Belarus rejected the appeal of the Russian-Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin on the legality and validity of the decision of the Minsk City Court, which on January 26 this year upheld the decision of the Prosecutor General of Belarus to extradite him at the request of Baku. In the evening of the same day he was taken to Baku by special plane.