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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Mark Townsend Home Affairs Editor

Anger grows over Afghan journalists still stranded by Home Office inaction

Home Secretary Suella Braverman. Press freedom groups are demanding to know when more will be done to help Afghan journalists.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman. Press freedom groups are demanding to know when more will be done to help Afghan journalists. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

Hundreds of Afghan journalists remain stranded in increasingly “dire” circumstances as frustration mounts over the UK government’s refusal to share the latest entry criteria for its flagship resettlement programme.

This weekend, a coalition of press freedom and free expression organisations, including Index on Censorship, the National Union of Journalists, PEN International and English PEN, have written to home secretary Suella Braverman asking why details of the next phase of the Afghan citizens’ resettlement scheme (ACRS) have yet to be revealed.

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