Georgia: German embassy should speed up visa process
(This article was first published in German on the website of Reporters Without Borders Germany)
Reporters Without Borders and the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) are appealing to the German embassy in Georgia not to slow down the process of granting visas for Azerbaijani journalists in exile who are being persecuted. The latest example is the case of the journalist Javid Abdullajev. The employee of the Berlin-based exile news portal Meydan TV has been trying since the beginning of July to get a visa to spend three months in Germany with his wife. Journalists who have fled Azerbaijan…