{"id":35211,"date":"2021-08-15T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T20:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/15\/australian-educated-afghans-plea-with-ministers-for-visas-to-australia"},"modified":"2021-08-15T05:00:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T20:00:49","slug":"australian-educated-afghans-plea-with-ministers-for-visas-to-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35211","title":{"rendered":"Australian-educated Afghans plea with ministers for visas to Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of 40 graduates of Australian universities, who consider Australia \u2018their second home\u2019, fear being murdered by a rampant Taliban for their connection to a liberal democracy<\/p>\n<p>A group of 40 Australian-educated Afghan nationals has written to Australia\u2019s foreign affairs and immigration ministers pleading for help to get out of Afghanistan. They fear they will be targets for the resurgent Taliban, because of their education in a liberal democracy and connection to a country the insurgents consider an invading force.<\/p>\n<p>The 40 alumni were educated in Australia on government scholarships \u2013 such as the Australia Leadership Award \u2013 and had returned to Afghanistan, many to senior positions within government.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/15\/australian-educated-afghans-plea-with-ministers-for-visas-to-australia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of 40 graduates of Australian universities, who consider Australia \u2018their second home\u2019, fear being murdered by a rampant Taliban for their connection to a liberal democracyA group of 40 Australian-educated Afghan nationals has written to Austra&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"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":[46,43,388,324,319,862],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-australia-news","category-australian-immigration-and-asylum","category-australian-politics","category-foreign-policy","category-higher-education"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35211","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\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35241,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35211\/revisions\/35241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}