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“This Is A Matter Of Saving The Culture Of Afghanistan”: Decorated Iranian Filmmakers Mohsen & Hana Makhmalbaf Plus Jimmy Mulville Urge UK Government To House Dozens Of Creatives Hunted Down By The Taliban
Resettlement of Afghanistani creatives hiding from The Taliban has been urged by Mohsen and Hana Makhmalbaf and Jimmy Mulville of the UK government.
“This is a matter of saving the culture of Afghanistan,” Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf said to a parliamentary committee this morning as he pled with the UK government to house dozens of creatives in danger from the Taliban. Mohsen Makhmalbaf stressed that accepting Afghani actors, journalists, poets and dancers into the UK would be of net benefit to the nation while simultaneously helping save lives and enrich local culture. Mohsen Makhmalbaf told of comedians being stopped in the street by the Taliban, asked to tell jokes and then shot on the spot, or an Afghani YouTuber who jumped out of a fourth floor high rise rather than be arrested and tortured.
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