Journalist Afgan Mukhtarli has been released from the Azerbaijani prison, where he had been serving a six-year sentence. The respective information was posted by Afgan Mukhtarli's brother Ramzan Mukhtarli on the social network.

“My brother Afgan Mukhtarli has been released. He was transported to the airport and taken to Germany,” he wrote.

Azerbaijani opposition journalist Afgan Mukhtarli went missing in Tbilisi on May 29, 2017. Later it turned out that he was in Azerbaijan. Afgan Mukhtarli was charged for illegally crossing the Azerbaijani state border, smuggling and resisting a government official. On January 12, 2018, the Azerbaijani court sentenced him to 6 years in prison.