{"id":41093,"date":"2022-01-26T15:30:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T06:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jan\/26\/lives-of-lgbtq-afghans-dramatically-worse-under-taliban-rule-finds-survey"},"modified":"2022-01-26T15:30:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T06:30:01","slug":"lives-of-lgbtq-afghans-dramatically-worse-under-taliban-rule-finds-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41093","title":{"rendered":"Lives of LGBTQ+ Afghans \u2018dramatically worse\u2019 under Taliban rule, finds survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Watch reports cases of mob attacks, gang-rape and death threats, with LGBTQ+ people living in fear and unable to flee<\/p>\n<p>The lives of LGBTQ+ people in Afghanistan have \u201cdramatically worsened\u201d under Taliban rule, according to a new survey, which highlights cases of violence, gang-rape and death threats since the group seized power last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/preview-link\/node\/380994\/20275154-4467-4420-81a1-3eb65a8ceecf\">The report<\/a>, by Human Rights Watch (HRW), recorded nearly 60 cases of targeted violence against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/20\/taliban-lgbtq-afghans-go-into-hiding\">LGBTQ+ people<\/a> since August 2021, many of whom described how Taliban rule has destroyed their lives. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jan\/26\/lives-of-lgbtq-afghans-dramatically-worse-under-taliban-rule-finds-survey\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Watch reports cases of mob attacks, gang-rape and death threats, with LGBTQ+ people living in fear and unable to fleeThe lives of LGBTQ+ people in Afghanistan have \u201cdramatically worsened\u201d under Taliban rule, according to a new survey, whic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1373,"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":[46,59,53,72,242,2345,61,572,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-lgbt-rights","category-rape-and-sexual-assault","category-sharia-law","category-south-and-central-asia","category-transgender","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\/41093","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\/1373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41094,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41093\/revisions\/41094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}