{"id":35449,"date":"2021-08-18T13:04:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T04:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/18\/afghanistan-reports-emerge-of-taliban-beating-afghans-seeking-to-flee-kabul"},"modified":"2021-08-18T13:04:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T04:04:24","slug":"afghanistan-reports-emerge-of-taliban-beating-afghans-seeking-to-flee-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35449","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: reports emerge of Taliban beating Afghans seeking to flee Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US voices concern at reports of violence against women and children trying to pass through Taliban checkpoints, as evacuations continue<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/18\/afghanistan-live-news-updates-taliban-kabul-airport-deaths-afghan-crisis\">Afghanistan \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Taliban promises of \u201csafe passage\u201d to the Kabul airport for Afghans trying to flee the country have been undermined by reports of women and children being beaten and whipped as they try to pass through checkpoints set up by the militants.<\/p>\n<p>With the Taliban in control of Afghanistan\u2019s land border, Kabul airport is the only way out of the country. The US military has secured the airfield itself, after chaotic scenes over the weekend, but the Taliban control the road to the airport and have set up numerous checkpoints in Kabul\u2019s north.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/18\/afghanistan-reports-emerge-of-taliban-beating-afghans-seeking-to-flee-kabul\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US voices concern at reports of violence against women and children trying to pass through Taliban checkpoints, as evacuations continueAfghanistan \u2013 latest updatesTaliban promises of \u201csafe passage\u201d to the Kabul airport for Afghans trying to flee the co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2414,"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":[46,61,44,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-military","category-us-news","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\/35449","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\/2414"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35450,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35449\/revisions\/35450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}