{"id":19083,"date":"2020-06-08T23:39:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T14:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/jun\/08\/afghan-car-blaze-deaths-prompt-fury-over-mistreatment-of-refugees-in-iran"},"modified":"2020-06-08T23:39:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T14:39:35","slug":"afghan-car-blaze-deaths-prompt-fury-over-mistreatment-of-refugees-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19083","title":{"rendered":"Afghan car blaze deaths prompt fury over mistreatment of refugees in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protest comes amid investigation into death by drowning of dozens of Afghans who crossed Iranian border illegally<\/p>\n<p>The deaths of three Afghan refugees in a car blaze in Iran have prompted an outpouring of anger in Afghanistan, after reports that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-52949429\">vehicle caught fire<\/a> after it was shot at by Iranian police.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of Afghans have protested on social media against the mistreatment of the refugees. Dozens more have protested on the streets in Kabul and in eastern Nangarhar province, with more demonstrations planned for major cities like London, Washington DC and Toronto in mid-June.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/jun\/08\/afghan-car-blaze-deaths-prompt-fury-over-mistreatment-of-refugees-in-iran\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protest comes amid investigation into death by drowning of dozens of Afghans who crossed Iranian border illegallyThe deaths of three Afghan refugees in a car blaze in Iran have prompted an outpouring of anger in Afghanistan, after reports that the vehi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1317,"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":[46,59,53,640,494,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-migration-and-development","category-refugees","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\/19083","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\/1317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19084,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19083\/revisions\/19084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}