{"id":36687,"date":"2021-09-10T04:14:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T19:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/sep\/09\/afghan-journalists-describe-violent-taliban-beatings-reporting-protests-video"},"modified":"2021-09-10T04:14:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T19:14:57","slug":"afghan-journalists-describe-violent-taliban-beatings-when-reporting-on-protests-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36687","title":{"rendered":"Afghan journalists describe violent Taliban beatings when reporting on protests \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two reporters from Kabul have said they were beaten for about 10 minutes by at least six men then locked in a cell, after reporting on protests in Panjshir valley. An acting Taliban minister, who declined to be identified, said attacks on&nbsp;journalists&nbsp;would be investigated.<\/p>\n<p>The founder of Afghan publication Etilaat Roz said the beatings sent a chilling message to the media in&nbsp;Afghanistan<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/09\/violent-attacks-on-afghan-journalists-by-taliban-prompt-growing-alarm\">Violent attacks on Afghan journalists by Taliban prompt growing alarm<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/sep\/09\/afghan-journalists-describe-violent-taliban-beatings-reporting-protests-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two reporters from Kabul have said they were beaten for about 10 minutes by at least six men then locked in a cell, after reporting on protests in Panjshir valley. An acting Taliban minister, who declined to be identified, said attacks on&nbsp;journali&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[46,669,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-journalist-safety","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\/36687","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36688,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36687\/revisions\/36688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}