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Afgan Mukhtarli recognized as a victim in the case of his abduction
Baku/21.04.21/Turan: After the interrogation of Afgan Mukhtarli on April 21, the employees of the Prosecutor's Office of Georgia assigned him the status of a victim. The prosecutor's office also reclassified the actions of the abductors of the Azerbaijani journalist to a more serious article, "Caucasian Knot" reports. Thus, the Prosecutor's Office of Georgia satisfied the petition of Archil Chopikashvili, a lawyer of the NGO "Rights of Georgia".
"The investigation, which has so far been conducted under Article 143 of the Criminal Code of Georgia (" Unlawful Deprivation of Liberty "), will continue under paragraph" a "of the third part of Article 143 (" Deprivation of liberty by a group of persons by prior conspiracy "), the NGO Prava Georgia".
On April 9, Afgan Mukhtarli was questioned by the prosecutor's office in the presence of his lawyer Archil Chopikashvili and said that before the abduction he was constantly under surveillance. The journalist provided the investigators with photographs of two people who followed him, suggesting that it was with their help that his abduction in Tbilisi was planned.
Mukhtarli's poll in the General Prosecutor's Office of Georgia, which began on April 9, lasted more than 10 hours and ended after midnight. According to Mukhtarly, he also gave the investigators several names and provided detailed information about the place of abduction and subsequent movements of the abductors.
* Investigative journalist Afgan Mukhtarli was kidnapped in Tbilisi in May 2017 and secretly transported to Azerbaijan, where he was accused of smuggling, illegal border crossing, and violence against a border guard and sentenced to 6 years in prison. According to unofficial information, he was kidnapped by three Georgian police officers and handed over to the law enforcement agencies of Azerbaijan on the border of the two countries.
The arrest of Mukhtarli was condemned by the European Parliament and international human rights organizations. Amnesty International recognized him as a "prisoner of conscience".
He was released on March 17, 2020 after the commutation of the sentence and he was immediately sent to Germany. — 06D-
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