390:. Article 318. Illegal crossing of border of the Republic of Azerbaijan. 318 (1) – crossing of protected border of the Azerbaijan Republic without established documents or outside of border check-point – is punished by the penalty at a rate from two hundred up to five hundred of nominal financial unit or imprisonment for the term up to two years. 318 (2) – the act provided by article 318 (1) of the present Code committed on preliminary arrangement by a group of persons or organized group either with application of violence or with threat of its application – is punished by imprisonment for the term up to five years. 2 Article 281. Public appeals directed against the state. 281 (1) – public appeals to violent capture of authority, violent deduction of authority or violent change of constitutional grounds or infringement of territorial integrity of the Azerbaijan Republic, as well as distribution of materials of such contents – is punished by imprisonment for the term up to five years. 281 (2) – the same acts committed repeatedly or by a group of persons – is punished by imprisonment for the term from five up to eight years.
237:, a personal adviser to the president, made a statement that Lapshin had attempted suicide, but that the prison guards managed to save his life. It was also stated that, in connection with this incident, it was decided to pardon him by presidential decree. Lapshin spent 3 days in the intensive care unit of a Baku hospital and then was deported to Israel. After arriving in Israel, Lapshin made a statement to the press that he had not committed suicide and that he had been attacked in Baku with the aim of murder. Medical examinations conducted in Israel confirmed the blogger’s version of the attempted murder, which contradicted the official position of the Baku authorities. Independent experts in Russia and the Netherlands also confirmed the assassination version, which became the basis for filing a complaint against Azerbaijan to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
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At the beginning of 2018, Alexander
Lapshin filed a lawsuit against Azerbaijan in the European Court of Human Rights (EHCR), in which he accused Azerbaijan of attempted murder, torture, illegal imprisonment. On May 20, 2021, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled on the blogger's
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and was engaged in commercial real estate and the Forex market. After the financial crisis of 2008, he returned to Israel. Until 2016, he lived on the Rosh HaNikra kibbutz in Israel, near the border with
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