{"id":40145,"date":"2021-12-27T21:25:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T12:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/27\/afghan-ex-bbc-journalist-stranded-for-months-due-to-home-office-scheme-delays"},"modified":"2021-12-27T21:25:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T12:25:57","slug":"afghan-ex-bbc-journalist-stranded-for-months-due-to-home-office-scheme-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40145","title":{"rendered":"Afghan ex-BBC journalist stranded for months due to Home Office scheme delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mudassar Kadir said \u2018zero progress\u2019 made since he and his family arrived at Dubai refugee centre<\/p>\n<p>An Afghan former BBC journalist who managed to flee the Taliban has been stranded in a refugee camp for months because of delays to a resettlement scheme promised by the UK government.<\/p>\n<p>Mudassar Kadir* is the only one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2021\/sep\/01\/ex-bbc-journalists-in-kabul-say-corporation-ignored-pleas-for-help\">14 former BBC employees<\/a> to have escaped Afghanistan since the Taliban took over in August. The other 13 remain in hiding in fear of their lives.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/27\/afghan-ex-bbc-journalist-stranded-for-months-due-to-home-office-scheme-delays\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mudassar Kadir said \u2018zero progress\u2019 made since he and his family arrived at Dubai refugee centreAn Afghan former BBC journalist who managed to flee the Taliban has been stranded in a refugee camp for months because of delays to a resettlement scheme pr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"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":[46,1762,1114,494,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-bbc","category-dubai","category-refugees","category-uk-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\/40145","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\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40146,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40145\/revisions\/40146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}