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Baku/ 04.05.18/Turan: The journalist AfganMukhtarly was sent to Shuvalan pre-trial detention center№3, the representative of the NİDA Movement, Samir Asadli, told Turan. According to him, Mukhtarly will stay for several days in jail, from where he will be sent to the jail.Mukhtarly was transferred from the Penitentiary Center to Sheki, where he was to participate in the trial of his case.
It should be reminded that AfganMukhtarly was abducted by Georgian policemen on May 29, 2017 in the center of Tbilisi and sent across the border of Azerbaijan. The next day he was arrested on charges of smuggling 10,000 euros, resisting the border guard and illegally crossing the border.
Mukhtarly is a known journalist that was persecuted in Baku and then moved to Tbilisi and worked with opposition Azerbaijani publications, investigating corruption in the highest echelons of power in Azerbaijan.
In January 2018, he was sentenced to 6 years imprisonment. International and local human rights activists recognized him as a political prisoner. --0--
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