The Australian Afghan Community are calling on the Australian government to quickly grant visas for journalists and entertainers who are actively being pursued by the Taliban.

Afghani Australian, Nasrin Azizi from Resolution Community Services, has supported the visa applications, at no charge, for this high-profile group of people that the Taliban will symbolically make an example of, to further frighten the Afghan people.

The visa applications are in, now we implore the Australian government to act quickly, as any delay will result in people being tortured, or killed, under the Taliban regime.

These people, many of them women, encouraged by the west, have spent their lives promoting freedom of expression, are now terrified that they, and their families, will be killed for believing it was possible.

Nasrin and the Australian Afghan Community ask the government to act quickly so that the Taliban does not completely silence the voices of Afghan people. Please allow them to come to Australia where their talent, hard work and resilience would only be of benefit to the Australian community.