{"id":11510,"date":"2019-11-25T22:36:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T13:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/nov\/25\/afghanistan-launches-investigation-into-alleged-school-paedophile-ring"},"modified":"2019-11-25T22:36:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T13:36:15","slug":"whistleblowers-on-school-paedophile-ring-in-afghanistan-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11510","title":{"rendered":"Whistleblowers on school paedophile ring in Afghanistan arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights defenders alleged that teachers and social workers were involved in abuse of more than 500 boys<\/p>\n<p>Two people have been detained by Afghanistan\u2019s intelligence services after they exposed a paedophile ring operating in some of the country\u2019s schools.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights organisations and the former president Hamid Karzai have called for the immediate release of Mohammed Mussa and Ehsanullah Hamidi, both well-known human rights defenders from Logar province, who were picked up by the National Directorate of Security last week when they were on their way to meet with the EU ambassador in Kabul.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/nov\/25\/afghanistan-launches-investigation-into-alleged-school-paedophile-ring\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights defenders alleged that teachers and social workers were involved in abuse of more than 500 boysTwo people have been detained by Afghanistan\u2019s intelligence services after they exposed a paedophile ring operating in some of the country\u2019s sch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,245,59,53,440,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-children","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-sexual-violence","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11511,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11510\/revisions\/11511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}