{"id":38758,"date":"2021-11-06T08:05:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T23:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/05\/womens-rights-activist-shot-dead-in-northern-afghanistan"},"modified":"2021-11-06T08:05:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T23:05:58","slug":"womens-rights-activist-shot-dead-in-northern-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38758","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s rights activist shot dead in northern Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frozan Safi, 29, is believed to be the first women\u2019s rights defender to be killed since Taliban return to power<\/p>\n<p>A 29-year-old activist and economics lecturer, Frozan Safi, has been shot and killed in northern Afghanistan, in what appears to be the first known death of a women\u2019s rights defender since the Taliban swept to power almost three months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Frozan Safi\u2019s body was identified in a morgue in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif after she went missing on 20 October. \u201cWe recognised her by her clothes. Bullets had destroyed her face,\u201d said Safi\u2019s sister, Rita, who is a doctor.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/05\/womens-rights-activist-shot-dead-in-northern-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frozan Safi, 29, is believed to be the first women\u2019s rights defender to be killed since Taliban return to powerA 29-year-old activist and economics lecturer, Frozan Safi, has been shot and killed in northern Afghanistan, in what appears to be the first&#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":[46,80,61,44,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-protest","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/38758","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=38758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38759,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38758\/revisions\/38759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}