Azerbaijani journalist Mukhtarli refused flight toTbilisi from Germany to give testimony
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Azerbaijani journalist Afghan Mukhtarli, who vanished from the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on May 29, 2017 and resurfaced in custody in Baku the next day, has been refused flight from Germany to Tbilisi to give testimony in his case.
Mukhtarli, who was released from Azerbaijani prison earlier this year now lives in Germany with his family and claims that Georgian law enforcers helped their Azerbaijani colleagues in his abduction three years ago.
The Georgian Airways says that Mukhtarli is a citizen of Azerbaijan and the citizens of the country are banned from entering Georgia due to the coronavirus.
The Georgian Chief Prosecutor’s Office says that Mukhtarli has already given testimony in Germany on July 24 according to their request and the testimony has been sent to Georgia.
Since 2017 Georgia has been investigating the case as an alleged ‘unlawful imprisonment’ of the journalist, who was charged with illegally crossing the border and smuggling in Azerbaijan following the abduction.
Mukhtarli was sentenced to six years in prison in 2017 but was released In March 2020.
Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Mukhtarli, who vanished from the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on May 29, 2017 and resurfaced in custody in Baku the next day, has been released from prison. OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Desir welcomed the news on Twitter.
Azerbaijani journalist Afghan Mukhtarli, who was released from Azerbaijani prison earlier this year and now lives in Germany, has plans to return to Georgia to testify to the country’s Prosecutor’s Office about his disappearance from Tbilisi back in 2017.
Georgia’s Interior Minister Giorgi Mgebrishvili announced at today’s special briefing that he had dismissed the head of Georgia’s Border Police and a chief of the Counter Intelligence Agency in relation with Azeri journalist Afghan Mukhtarli, who vanished from Tbilisi on May 29 and resurfaced in custody in Baku the next day.
Georgia’s Interior Minister held a special briefing today in which he strongly denied the involvement of Georgian law enforcers in the detention of Azeri journalist Afgan Mukhtarli, who vanished from Tbilisi on May 29 and resurfaced in custody in Baku the next day.
Mukhtakri claims that he was abducted from Tbilisi by Azerbaijani law enforcers with the help of their Georgian colleagues because of his investigative articles about Azerbaijani top figures, including President Ilham Aliyev and his family.