{"id":38849,"date":"2021-11-12T18:47:21","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T09:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/12\/women-lead-fight-against-extrajudicial-killing-pakistan-balochistan-protest-abductions"},"modified":"2021-11-12T18:47:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T09:47:21","slug":"women-lead-fight-against-extrajudicial-killing-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38849","title":{"rendered":"Women lead fight against extrajudicial killing in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wave of abductions amid military crackdown in conservative Balochistan province has mobilised women to protest<\/p>\n<p>The surroundings of the Missing Persons protest camp in Pakistan\u2019s troubled region of Balochistan are sadly familiar to 12-year-old Ansa. For two years after her brother Amir was allegedly abducted by security forces she came to the camp every day, standing alongside dozens of women whose sons, brothers, fathers and uncles had similarly disappeared without trace. They held up their photos, demanding answers and, most of all, the return of their loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>Ansa thought her family were among the lucky ones: her elder brother Amir was returned alive to his family in 2019 after two years in a detention centre in an unknown location. The family was told by the security agencies never to return to the protest camp again.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/12\/women-lead-fight-against-extrajudicial-killing-pakistan-balochistan-protest-abductions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wave of abductions amid military crackdown in conservative Balochistan province has mobilised women to protestThe surroundings of the Missing Persons protest camp in Pakistan\u2019s troubled region of Balochistan are sadly familiar to 12-year-old Ansa. For &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"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":[59,60,80,61,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-pakistan","category-protest","category-south-and-central-asia","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","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\/38849","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\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38859,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38849\/revisions\/38859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}