{"id":35331,"date":"2021-08-17T04:30:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T19:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/there-are-no-women-kabul-street-stayed-home-fear-beaten-taliban-fighters"},"modified":"2021-08-17T04:30:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T19:30:19","slug":"there-are-no-women-in-the-streets-the-day-life-changed-in-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35331","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There are no women in the streets\u2019 \u2013 the day life changed in Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Afghan capital women stayed home in fear of being beaten by the Taliban for not covering themselves<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/16\/afghanistan-taliban-kabul-evacuation-live-news-updates\">Afghanistan live news: troops work to restart Kabul flights<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The streets of Kabul were emptied of women on Monday, the first full day of Taliban rule across Afghanistan, as Taliban gunmen patrolled in cars seized by police, confiscated guns from security guards and urged shopkeepers and government employees back to work.<\/p>\n<p>Chaos unfolded at the airport, where troops used guns and helicopters to clear the runways, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/kabul-airport-chaos-and-panic-as-afghans-and-foreigners-attempt-to-flee-the-capital\">several people died in frantic last-minute attempts to escape by clinging to departing planes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/there-are-no-women-kabul-street-stayed-home-fear-beaten-taliban-fighters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Afghan capital women stayed home in fear of being beaten by the Taliban for not covering themselvesAfghanistan live news: troops work to restart Kabul flightsThe streets of Kabul were emptied of women on Monday, the first full day of Taliban rul&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2400,"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":[46,44,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-taliban","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","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\/35331","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\/2400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35332,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35331\/revisions\/35332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}