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Baku/20.02.18/Turan: On Tuesday the Sheki Appellate Court started the consideration of the complaint of the convicted journalist Afgan Mukhtarli began under the chairmanship of Rafail Aliyev. According to the lawyer Neymat Kerimli, the court granted the application for consideration of the complaint with a partial judicial investigation and the demand for additional evidence and ordered the hearing of the case on March 2. It should be reminded that Afgan Mukhtarly 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 and illegal crossing of the border. In January 2018, he was sentenced to six years in prison. International and local human rights activists recognized him as a political prisoner. -03B-
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