{"id":20559,"date":"2020-07-15T04:13:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T19:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2020\/jul\/14\/former-afghan-football-chief-keramuudin-karim-life-ban-upheld-abuse"},"modified":"2020-07-15T04:13:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T19:13:51","slug":"former-afghan-football-presidents-life-ban-for-abusing-female-players-upheld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20559","title":{"rendered":"Former Afghan football president&#8217;s life ban for abusing female players upheld"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Karim banned by Fifa after female players reported abuse<\/li>\n<li>Court of arbitration for sport confirms punishment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The court of arbitration for sport (Cas) has dismissed the appeal of Keramuudin Karim, a former president of the Afghanistan Football Federation, against his lifetime ban from football.<\/p>\n<p>Karim was given the ban and fined 1 million Swiss francs by the Fifa ethics committee for breaching its code after players came forward to the Guardian in November 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2018\/nov\/30\/fifa-examining-claims-sexual-physical-abuse-afghanistan-womens-team\">to expose sexual, physical and emotional abuses<\/a> of members of the Afghanistan Women\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2020\/jul\/14\/former-afghan-football-chief-keramuudin-karim-life-ban-upheld-abuse\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karim banned by Fifa after female players reported abuseCourt of arbitration for sport confirms punishmentThe court of arbitration for sport (Cas) has dismissed the appeal of Keramuudin Karim, a former president of the Afghanistan Football Federation, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1451,"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":[46,1552,627,1022,61,203,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-fifa","category-football","category-football-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sport","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20559","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\/1451"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20560,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20559\/revisions\/20560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}