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In Tajikistan, Afghan exiles escaped the Taliban in extremis

2021-08-30T17:53:29.296Z


REPORT - Like Mohammed Chapour Saber, a respected journalist we met, only a lucky few were able to leave Afghanistan before everything curled up. For a real dive into the unknown.


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Six months ago, Mohammed Chapour Saber never imagined having to flee his homeland in disaster a few weeks later and become a refugee, cut off from those close to him. Saber, 38, had been a respected journalist in Herat, the large city in western Afghanistan for the past 15 years. At the beginning of May, however, an infernal spiral was set in motion. “

One night, I received a call from an anonymous who said he lived in the region

,” he says.

He asked me if I was Chapour and said, 'Why are you exaggerating our violence, the number of our murders, in your articles?' I replied that it was not not me, but he said he wanted to see me the next day and that if not, one of his colleagues would come to see me in person

. "

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The seasoned journalist, collaborator of a foreign media, immediately understands that the threat weighing on him emanates from the Taliban, whose abuses he regularly denounced.

He contacted the local authorities and, some

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Source: lefigaro

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