Deutsche Presse-Agentur July 20, 2017 Thursday 9:53 AM EST Azerbaijan jails travel blogger for 3 years for trip to disputed land DPA POLITICS Azerbaijan conflict Armenia Azerbaijan jails travel blogger for 3 years for trip to disputed land Moscow A court in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan sentenced Russian travel blogger Alexander Lapshin on Thursday to three years in prison for visiting the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The region, which comprises about 4,500 square kilometres within predominantly Muslim Azerbaijan, is controlled by Christian Armenian separatists. Azerbaijan and neighbouring Armenia have fought over the land for decades. Lapshin, who also has Israeli and Ukrainian citizenship, was found guilty of crossing into the region from the Armenian side without Azerbaijan's authorization. He was detained in Belarus last year and extradited to Azerbaijan.
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