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"Western countries must save Afghan journalists and artists"

2021-08-08T17:25:50.931Z


TRIBUNE - At the initiative of Atiq Rahimi, 2008 Goncourt Prize, more than 80 personalities are asking liberal democracies to grant asylum to Afghan journalists and artists threatened with death by the Taliban.


International forces are leaving Afghanistan.

The Taliban, who regained two-thirds of the country, reimposed their law, sowing terror by killing with cruelty not only those who had joined the international forces, but also the artists and journalists who, during the last twenty years, have so courageously denounced the horrors that this army of darkness inflicts on Afghans.

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The international coalition in Afghanistan has made it a priority to save the lives of local translators and their families, but no one cares about Afghan journalists, artists and independent filmmakers, priority targets of the Taliban, whose relentless hatred for the he respect for culture and civilization no longer needs to be demonstrated.

At this very moment, the attack on the city of Herat, in the west of the country, known as the city of poets and wise men, surrounded by majestic historical monuments, is proof of this.

A month ago, the great

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Source: lefigaro

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