{"id":39561,"date":"2021-12-07T09:01:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T00:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/07\/how-an-afghan-reporter-was-left-to-the-taliban-by-the-foreign-office"},"modified":"2021-12-07T09:01:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T00:01:12","slug":"how-an-afghan-reporter-was-left-to-the-taliban-by-the-foreign-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39561","title":{"rendered":"How an Afghan reporter was left to the Taliban by the Foreign Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Fahim\u2019 was cleared to leave Kabul. Then the phone went dead. Now he moves house every two days to evade capture<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/dec\/07\/whistleblower-condemns-foreign-office-over-kabul-evacuation\">Whistleblower condemns Foreign Office over Kabul evacuation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/07\/whistleblower-on-uks-afghan-evacuation-main-accusations\">Whistleblower\u2019s main accusations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/dec\/07\/fresh-questionsdominic-raab-role-afghan-rescue-debacle\">Fresh questions about Dominic Raab\u2019s role<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fahim, a journalist who had worked with British media organisations, was one of thousands of Afghans who approached the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) for help to escape Afghanistan after the Taliban\u2019s conquest this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Told he was cleared to travel with his family to the UK, he was also one of the many left behind as the promised help from the FCDO failed to materialise.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/07\/how-an-afghan-reporter-was-left-to-the-taliban-by-the-foreign-office\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Fahim\u2019 was cleared to leave Kabul. Then the phone went dead. Now he moves house every two days to evade captureWhistleblower condemns Foreign Office over Kabul evacuationWhistleblower\u2019s main accusationsFresh questions about Dominic Raab\u2019s roleFahim, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"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":[46,1879,238,4,61,44,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-foreign-commonwealth-and-development-office","category-media","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39561","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\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39562,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39561\/revisions\/39562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}