{"id":36394,"date":"2021-09-04T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/03\/afghanistan-women-defiant-amid-taliban-crackdown"},"modified":"2021-09-04T01:00:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T16:00:32","slug":"evidence-contradicts-talibans-claim-to-respect-womens-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36394","title":{"rendered":"Evidence contradicts Taliban\u2019s claim to respect women\u2019s rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are signs of a return to something worryingly close to the hardline restrictions of the past across Afghan life<\/p>\n<p>When Taliban fighters moved into Herat city in western Afghanistan last month, one thing mattered more to some of them than the battle itself. As gunmen faced off around the governor\u2019s office, a group of militants came to Shogofa\u2019s* workplace and ordered all the women home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey hadn\u2019t even taken all the city, but they came to our headquarters. The manager called an emergency meeting and they told all the women to leave,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/03\/afghanistan-women-defiant-amid-taliban-crackdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are signs of a return to something worryingly close to the hardline restrictions of the past across Afghan lifeWhen Taliban fighters moved into Herat city in western Afghanistan last month, one thing mattered more to some of them than the battle &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2529,"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":[46,53,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-human-rights","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/36394","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\/2529"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36395,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36394\/revisions\/36395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}