{"id":35521,"date":"2021-08-20T07:54:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/20\/taliban-violently-block-australian-citizens-from-kabul-airport-evacuation-flights"},"modified":"2021-08-20T07:54:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:54:14","slug":"taliban-violently-block-australian-citizens-from-kabul-airport-evacuation-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35521","title":{"rendered":"Taliban violently block Australian citizens from Kabul airport evacuation flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australians report being hit with weapons and whipped by Taliban militants when they presented their documents<\/p>\n<p>The road to Kabul airport \u2013 crowded, chaotic and punctuated by regular gunfire \u2013 has proved impassable to dozens of Australian citizens and visa-holders trying to reach military evacuation flights out of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday afternoon, the Australian government issued a public message to Australian citizens and visa-holders in the Afghan capital to travel to Kabul airport to board an evacuation flight out of the country that has fallen to the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/20\/taliban-violently-block-australian-citizens-from-kabul-airport-evacuation-flights\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australians report being hit with weapons and whipped by Taliban militants when they presented their documentsThe road to Kabul airport \u2013 crowded, chaotic and punctuated by regular gunfire \u2013 has proved impassable to dozens of Australian citizens and vi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2423,"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":[46,43,645,324,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-politics","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35521","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\/2423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35522,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35521\/revisions\/35522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}