Hasbulla says he's been released from prison and placed under house arrest

Social media star Hasbulla says he's been released from prison and placed under house arrest after he and several of his friends were arrested for dangerous driving.

After the news broke, Hasbulla released a statement on Instagram in which he said: "We decided to hype a little bit. That won't happen again, people we apologise.

“We had to answer for it a little bit. I wasn't driving either."

And today (9 May), he revealed on Twitter that he is now out of jail.

"Bailed out on house arrest," he wrote alongside a pic of him with an photoshopped electronic ankle tag on his right leg.

On their Telegram channel, the Dagestani authorities released a statement of their own.

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It read: "Unbridled wedding fun in Dagestan is known to many and far beyond the borders of the republic.

"In the absence of other ways of entertainment, such a primitive option is still extremely popular - blocking roads for other road users, burning rubber, smashing cars against each other and many other features that, in fact, have nothing to do with the celebration.

"All participants of 'wedding emotions', as they themselves call it, were taken to the police, and in relation to them, employees of the State Traffic Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan drew up administrative protocols for all violations."

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The 20-year-old, who has a form of dwarfism, is hugely popular and has rubbed shoulders with the likes of Mike Tyson, Drake and Shaquille O’Neal.

He apparently makes most of his money from his promotional work with the UFC, while continuing to keep up his paid public appearances.

He was reportedly arrested recently after he and some mates drove into a street in Russia and started making life difficult for other drivers while celebrating a wedding.

Local reports claimed that the gang had been taken into custody for their actions, and a video posted by the Internal Affairs Ministry of Dagestan showed a number of cars - one carrying the social media personality - doing doughnuts in the street and blocking off the road.

In the footage we see a car with a huge scratch on its side, before noticing a group of men with Hasbulla at the front, standing in a line-up, with many of them looking like they’d suddenly realised the severity of their actions.