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The European Parliament adopted at its Plenary Sitting on June 15 a resolution http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20170609IPR77018/human-rights-azerbaijan-pakistan-indonesia on the alleged abduction of Afgan Mukhtarli, an Azerbaijani investigative journalist, who went missing on May 29 from Tbilisi and appeared in a detention facility in Baku a day later, Civil.ge reported.

The resolution, titled “The Case of Afgan Mukhtarli and Situation of Media in Azerbaijan” and co-sponsored by 93 MEPs, calls for immediate release of “of all political prisoners” in Azerbaijan and “strongly condemns the abduction of Afgan Mukhtarli in Tbilisi and his subsequent arbitrary detention in Baku, considers this a serious violation of human rights and condemns this grave act of breach of law.”

The European Parliament “strongly condemns the prosecution of Afgan Mukhtarli following bogus charges” and “calls on the Azerbaijani authorities to immediately and unconditionally drop all charges against and release Afgan Mukhtarli,” the document reads.

MEPs also stressed that the Georgian authorities need “to take all the necessary steps vis-à-vis the Azerbaijani authorities in order for him to be able to be reunited with his family.”