{"id":38632,"date":"2021-11-04T16:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T07:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/nov\/04\/they-stayed-to-fight-the-taliban-now-the-protesters-are-being-hunted-down"},"modified":"2021-11-04T16:00:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T07:00:28","slug":"they-stayed-to-fight-the-taliban-now-the-protesters-are-being-hunted-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38632","title":{"rendered":"They stayed to fight the Taliban. Now the protesters are being hunted down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Women\u2019s rights activists fear for their lives as Afghanistan\u2019s new rulers infiltrate, detain, beat and torture groups of protesters<\/p>\n<p>A month ago, Reshmin was busy organising protests against Taliban rule in online groups of hundreds of fellow women\u2019s rights activists. Now the 26-year-old economics graduate must operate clandestinely, dressing in disguise and only demonstrating with a select few.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf things continue like this, there will be no future for women in Afghanistan. It\u2019s better if the future never arrives,\u201d says Reshmin, who spoke to the Guardian using only her first name, which means \u201csilk\u201d in Farsi, out of security concerns. \u201cEach time we go out, we say farewell because we might not make it back alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/nov\/04\/they-stayed-to-fight-the-taliban-now-the-protesters-are-being-hunted-down\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women\u2019s rights activists fear for their lives as Afghanistan\u2019s new rulers infiltrate, detain, beat and torture groups of protestersA month ago, Reshmin was busy organising protests against Taliban rule in online groups of hundreds of fellow women\u2019s rig&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2676,"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":[46,247,646,59,53,78,80,79,61,44,2410,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-aid","category-gender","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-life-and-style","category-protest","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-violence-against-women-and-girls","category-women","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\/38632","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\/2676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38633,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38632\/revisions\/38633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}