{"id":13385,"date":"2020-01-29T16:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T07:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/jan\/29\/investigation-begins-into-alleged-abuse-of-more-than-500-boys-in-afghanistan"},"modified":"2020-01-29T16:00:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T07:00:40","slug":"investigation-begins-into-alleged-abuse-of-more-than-500-boys-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13385","title":{"rendered":"Investigation begins into alleged abuse of more than 500 boys in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government says schools to face more scrutiny after report that thousands may have been victims of paedophile ring<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan\u2019s attorney general has launched an investigation into the alleged abuse of more than 500 schoolboys, following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/nov\/13\/afghanistan-paedophile-ring-that-abused-over-500-boys\">the discovery of a paedophile ring<\/a> in the country\u2019s Logar province.<\/p>\n<p>Jamshid Rasooli, a spokesman for the attorney general\u2019s office, said a committee had been appointed. \u201cWe are in the process of running a comprehensive, impartial investigation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/jan\/29\/investigation-begins-into-alleged-abuse-of-more-than-500-boys-in-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government says schools to face more scrutiny after report that thousands may have been victims of paedophile ringAfghanistan\u2019s attorney general has launched an investigation into the alleged abuse of more than 500 schoolboys, following the discovery o&#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":[46,59,53,440,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","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\/13385","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=13385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13386,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13385\/revisions\/13386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}