The Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety (IRFS) is outraged by today’s sentencing of investigative journalist Afgan Mukhtarli to three months pre-trial detention following his cross-border abduction, orchestrated by the Azerbaijani authorities. Today, a Baku court sentenced Mukhtarli to three months...

Journalist Afgan Mukhtarli has been kidnapped in Tbilisi and brought to Baku, as he told his lawyer Nemat Karimli in a phone call. Yesterday evening, Afgan Mukhtarli parted with his friends to go home, but he never made it there....