{"id":44658,"date":"2022-05-19T22:47:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T13:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/19\/afghan-surgeon-who-fled-ukraine-says-he-was-treated-differently-at-polish-border"},"modified":"2022-05-19T22:47:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T13:47:01","slug":"afghan-surgeon-who-fled-ukraine-says-he-was-treated-differently-at-polish-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44658","title":{"rendered":"Afghan surgeon who fled Ukraine says he was treated differently at Polish border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018I\u2019m not blond,\u2019 says Ruhullah Haji, who was stuck at crossing for three days but managed to join family in UK<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/ukraine-live\/latest\">Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and later building a life in Ukraine, Ruhullah Haji has been displaced by war twice in 34 years.<\/p>\n<p>So when the heart surgeon made it to Britain after fleeing Russia\u2019s invasion, he was desperate for security and the right to remain as a Ukrainian. Many other Afghans have struggled to secure such rights since the fall of Kabul last year, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/26\/welcome-to-britain-now-what-afghan-families-on-their-lives-in-limbo\">remain in limbo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/19\/afghan-surgeon-who-fled-ukraine-says-he-was-treated-differently-at-polish-border\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018I\u2019m not blond,\u2019 says Ruhullah Haji, who was stuck at crossing for three days but managed to join family in UKRussia-Ukraine war: latest updatesBorn in Kabul, Afghanistan, and later building a life in Ukraine, Ruhullah Haji has been displaced by war tw&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3007,"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":[46,221,717,362,494,61,52,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-europe","category-immigration-and-asylum","category-race","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-ukraine","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\/44658","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\/3007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44659,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44658\/revisions\/44659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}