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(CNN)Over 100 Afghan journalists and their families arrived successful Mexico connected Wednesday aft requesting humanitarian protection, according to a connection from Mexico's Foreign Ministry.
The radical of 124 radical whose lives would person been successful information successful Afghanistan consisted of media workers and their families, including children, according to the statement. They arrived to Mexico City International Airport aboriginal connected Wednesday.
Mexico's Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said the determination to connection extortion to the journalists is "congruent with the humanities presumption of Mexico."
"It's astir those who are risking their lives to inform, to communicate; who are committed to state of expression," helium said, adding that the radical included reporters and section unit members from "many media who person applied for humanitarian visas to Mexico owed to the latest events."
The overseas ministry added successful the connection that the question and surviving costs during their enactment successful Mexico volition beryllium covered by backstage sponsors and civilian nine organizations.
The Committee to Protect Journalists has warned that Afghan journalists look utmost dangers amid the Taliban takeover.
At slightest 3 pistillate Afghan journalists person been murdered this year, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF), portion 1 was changeable dormant by a gunman successful December 2020.
The New York Times said Wednesday that a radical of Afghans who worked for the newspaper, on with their families, were portion of the group.
According to a connection issued by the Mexican Foreign Ministry, the manager of International News for the New York Times, Michael Slackman, thanked Mexico for its enactment and "the accelerated dispatch by Mexico's authorities of harmless proscription for journalists."
In the statement, Slackman besides urged "the full planetary assemblage to travel this illustration and to proceed moving connected behalf of the brave Afghan journalists who are inactive successful danger."
RSF said the Taliban was already imposing harsh constraints connected the quality media -- adjacent arsenic it made promises astir protecting property freedom.
"Officially, the caller Afghan authorities person not issued immoderate regulations, but the media and reporters are being treated successful an arbitrary manner," RSF secretary-general Christophe Deloire said successful a statement.
The radical said that astatine slightest 10 journalists person been subjected to unit oregon threats portion moving successful the streets of Kabul and Jalalabad successful the past week.
Many of the occidental media that had beingness successful Afghanistan person evacuated their overseas correspondents and section unit successful caller weeks, pursuing the Taliban takeover.
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