{"id":31327,"date":"2021-04-24T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/24\/interpreters-who-helped-australian-forces-in-afghanistan-plead-for-visas-to-escape-extreme-threats"},"modified":"2021-04-24T05:00:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T20:00:19","slug":"interpreters-who-helped-australian-forces-in-afghanistan-plead-for-visas-to-escape-extreme-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31327","title":{"rendered":"Interpreters who helped Australian forces in Afghanistan plead for visas to escape \u2018extreme threats\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As targeted killings rise \u2018exponentially\u2019 across country, Afghans fear they will have no way out if they can\u2019t leave alongside troops in September<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of Afghan interpreters who have worked on the battlefield alongside Australian soldiers have made an urgent plea to the federal government for humanitarian visas, fearing they will be murdered by the Taliban when troops withdraw later this year.<\/p>\n<p>The 41 interpreters wrote to the home affairs and immigration departments via the Australian embassy in Jordan in January, and again on 19 April after Scott Morrison announced that Australia would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/apr\/13\/biden-withdraw-troops-afghanistan-september-11\">follow the US<\/a> by withdrawing all remaining troops by September.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/24\/interpreters-who-helped-australian-forces-in-afghanistan-plead-for-visas-to-escape-extreme-threats\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As targeted killings rise \u2018exponentially\u2019 across country, Afghans fear they will have no way out if they can\u2019t leave alongside troops in SeptemberDozens of Afghan interpreters who have worked on the battlefield alongside Australian soldiers have made a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2124,"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":[46,43,1585,324],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-australia-news","category-australian-military","category-australian-politics"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31327","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\/2124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31328,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31327\/revisions\/31328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}