{"id":38492,"date":"2021-10-30T11:55:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T02:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/30\/first-group-of-lgbt-afghans-fleeing-taliban-arrive-in-the-uk"},"modified":"2021-10-30T11:55:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T02:55:45","slug":"first-group-of-lgbt-afghans-fleeing-taliban-arrive-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38492","title":{"rendered":"First group of LGBT+ Afghans fleeing Taliban arrive in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students and activists in group that British foreign ministry hopes will be \u2018the first of many\u2019 in coming months<\/p>\n<p>A group of LGBT+ Afghans has arrived in Britain, the first since the Taliban\u2019s return to power in August caused panic among gay and transgender Afghans, who feared persecution and even death under the Islamists\u2019 rule.<\/p>\n<p>The evacuation of the 29 Afghans is \u201choped to be the first of many\u201d in the coming months, Britain\u2019s foreign ministry said in a statement on Saturday, hours after a Taliban spokesman said LGBT+ rights would not be respected.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/30\/first-group-of-lgbt-afghans-fleeing-taliban-arrive-in-the-uk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students and activists in group that British foreign ministry hopes will be \u2018the first of many\u2019 in coming monthsA group of LGBT+ Afghans has arrived in Britain, the first since the Taliban\u2019s return to power in August caused panic among gay and transgen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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":[46,72,494,61,44,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-lgbt-rights","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-uk-news","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\/38492","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38493,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38492\/revisions\/38493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}