{"id":36679,"date":"2021-09-10T01:44:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T16:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/09\/violent-attacks-on-afghan-journalists-by-taliban-prompt-growing-alarm"},"modified":"2021-09-10T01:44:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T16:44:19","slug":"violent-attacks-on-afghan-journalists-by-taliban-prompt-growing-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36679","title":{"rendered":"Violent attacks on Afghan journalists by Taliban prompt growing alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As images circulate of the brutal flogging of two reporters, a senior Afghan journalist declares \u2018press freedom has ended\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A spate of violent attacks on Afghan journalists by the Taliban is prompting growing alarm over the freedom of the country\u2019s media, with one senior journalist declaring that \u201cpress freedom has ended\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>As images and testimony circulated internationally of the arrest and brutal flogging of two reporters who were detained covering a women\u2019s rights demonstration in Kabul on Wednesday, Human Rights Watch and the Committee to Protect Journalists raised concern over the recent string of attacks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/09\/violent-attacks-on-afghan-journalists-by-taliban-prompt-growing-alarm\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As images circulate of the brutal flogging of two reporters, a senior Afghan journalist declares \u2018press freedom has ended\u2019A spate of violent attacks on Afghan journalists by the Taliban is prompting growing alarm over the freedom of the country\u2019s media&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2555,"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":[46,669,238,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-journalist-safety","category-media","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/36679","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\/2555"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36680,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36679\/revisions\/36680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}