Several prominent German news outlets have gone to court over the far-right Alternative for Germany’s (AfD) decision to exclude their journalists from election-day events in the central German state of Thuringia. The news magazine Spiegel, the newspapers Bild and Welt as well as the left-wing daily taz all announced that they had asked a court in the city of Erfurt to order the AfD’s state party in Thuringia to grant access to their reporters. The news outlets said that freedom of the press was being restricted by the AfD’s decision to deny access to journalists from those outlets. A court spo…