{"id":36160,"date":"2021-08-30T13:25:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T04:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/30\/she-will-die-afghans-take-new-zealand-government-to-court-over-alleged-visa-inaction"},"modified":"2021-08-30T13:25:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T04:25:38","slug":"she-will-die-afghans-take-new-zealand-government-to-court-over-alleged-visa-inaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36160","title":{"rendered":"\u2018She will die\u2019: Afghans take New Zealand government to court over alleged visa inaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lawyer for the Afghans says legal proceedings are a last resort, and that Immigration New Zealand have been \u2018completely flat-footed\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In the video, New Zealand flags are burning. Their edges curl and the stars of the southern cross turn black, crumbling into the soil of a Kabul backyard. The flags are printed on sheet after sheet of paper: certificates of appreciation, thanks, and recognition of service to New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>The family burning them has held on to them for the past decade, memorialising the translation services they provided for New Zealand troops in Afghanistan. Now, those papers have become a potentially deadly hazard.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/30\/she-will-die-afghans-take-new-zealand-government-to-court-over-alleged-visa-inaction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lawyer for the Afghans says legal proceedings are a last resort, and that Immigration New Zealand have been \u2018completely flat-footed\u2019In the video, New Zealand flags are burning. Their edges curl and the stars of the southern cross turn black, crumblin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2134,"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":[46,41,393,56,933,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-asia-pacific","category-humanitarian-response","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","category-taliban","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\/36160","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\/2134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36161,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36160\/revisions\/36161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}