{"id":37085,"date":"2021-09-20T22:07:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T13:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/20\/taliban-lgbtq-afghans-go-into-hiding"},"modified":"2021-09-20T22:07:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T13:07:35","slug":"the-taliban-will-have-no-mercy-lgbtq-afghans-go-into-hiding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37085","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Taliban will have no mercy\u2019: LGBTQ+ Afghans go into hiding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gay and trans people in Afghanistan already faced stigma, but now even a call from an unknown number sparks fear<\/p>\n<p>Laila, a transgender woman in Afghanistan, rubs her eyes to wipe tears away. \u201cI am terrified. It\u2019s like a nightmare. I don\u2019t feel safe even in my room. I\u2019m scared of the Taliban. When I see them I feel they will know who I am and they will come to beat me, kick me or send me to prison.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the chaotic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/18\/biden-us-troops-afghanistan-31-august-deadline\">US withdrawal from Afghanistan<\/a> in August, Laila is far from an isolated case. Rehmat, a gay man, said: \u201cOur lives are in danger. We are afraid of having mobile phones. I get afraid when I receive calls from unknown numbers, worried that it might be the Taliban.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/20\/taliban-lgbtq-afghans-go-into-hiding\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gay and trans people in Afghanistan already faced stigma, but now even a call from an unknown number sparks fearLaila, a transgender woman in Afghanistan, rubs her eyes to wipe tears away. \u201cI am terrified. It\u2019s like a nightmare. I don\u2019t feel safe even &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2590,"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":[46,59,53,72,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-lgbt-rights","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/37085","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\/2590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37086,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37085\/revisions\/37086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}