Afgan Mukhtarli, the Azeri investigative journalist and political activist well known for his investigative reports on the Azerbaijani government, was released from an Azerbaijani prison on March 17 after three years in detention. In 2017, Azerbaijani forces kidnapped Mukhtarli from his home in Georgia and brought him to Azerbaijan, where he was convicted of crossing the border illegally, and sentenced to six years incarceration after a sham trial. Mukhtarli’s sentence was widely denounced by the international community, including the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Office of Security and Cooperation in Europe.

In a Global Voices interview a week after his release, Mukhtarli thanked the international community for its continued pressure on the Azerbaijani government during his time in prison.

To read that interview, click here. To read about more Mukhtarli’s work and his 2017 abduction, click here.