Tajikistan - Tajik journalist allowed to fly back to Germany

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is relieved to learn that Dodojon Atovulloyev, a well-known Tajik journalist and government opponent, has been given permission to leave Tbilisi airport and fly back to Germany, where he has political refugee status. Atovulloyev had been held at the airport since dawn yesterday. The Georgian interior ministry said he was detained by airport border guards, not the police, at Interpol's request. Reporters Without Borders is pleased that he has not been extradited to (...)

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