{"id":39818,"date":"2021-12-15T16:01:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T07:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/dec\/15\/the-taliban-say-theyll-kill-me-if-they-find-me-a-female-reporter-still-on-the-run-speaks-out"},"modified":"2021-12-15T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T07:01:08","slug":"the-taliban-say-theyll-kill-me-if-they-find-me-a-female-reporter-still-on-the-run-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39818","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Taliban say they\u2019ll kill me if they find me\u2019: a female reporter still on the run speaks out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We return to the story of a journalist forced to flee as Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in August. Unable to return home without putting at risk everyone she loves and hounded by threatening calls, she remains in hiding in the country four months on<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Read her first story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/aug\/10\/please-pray-for-me-female-reporter-being-hunted-by-the-taliban-tells-her-story\">\u2018Please pray for me\u2019: a female reporter being hunted by the Taliban<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am an Afghan female journalist and I have been on the run for more than four months. I have lived in numerous safe houses and the homes of people who\u2019ve offered me refuge. I am constantly moving to avoid being caught, from province to province, city to city.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban insurgents have been threatening to kill me and my colleagues for two years, for our reports exposing their crimes in our province. But when they seized control of our provincial capital, they started to hunt for those who had spoken out against them. I decided to escape, for my own and my family\u2019s safety.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/dec\/15\/the-taliban-say-theyll-kill-me-if-they-find-me-a-female-reporter-still-on-the-run-speaks-out\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We return to the story of a journalist forced to flee as Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in August. Unable to return home without putting at risk everyone she loves and hounded by threatening calls, she remains in hiding in the country four months onRe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2281,"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":[46,59,53,669,238,54,61,44,281,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-journalist-safety","category-media","category-press-freedom","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-women","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\/39818","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\/2281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39819,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39818\/revisions\/39819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}