Baku / 05/31/17 / Turan: About hundred journalists and human rights activists of Georgia gathered in front of the Georgian government building in Tbilisi this morning to protest against the abduction and extradition of the journalist Afghan Mukhtarly to Azerbaijan.
The people hold placards and slogans condemning the Georgian authorities for such a wild violation of human rights and international norms of law.
"Abducting a person and extraditing him to another country, without legal grounds and in such a wild form, are actions not permissible in a member state of the Council of Europe that claims to be a member of the European Union," one of the protesters said in an interview with Azerbaijani journalists.
The wife of Afghan Mukhtarl, Leyla Mustafayeva showed the participants her husband"s passport, which refutes the version of the Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan that Mukhtarly "decided to cross the border illegally."
Leyla Mustafayeva
"Such statements are idiocy. Who will illegally cross the border without a passport and for what purpose? We want to know it," she said.
The protesters demand that the Georgian authorities investigate the incident and give an answer to the question of how this could happen in a democratic country that claims the priority of human rights and democracy.
To date, the Georgian authorities still do not comment on the abduction of Mukhtarli in Tbilisi in the evening of May 29 and how he could be transported across the border without a passport. -0-
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