{"id":46029,"date":"2022-07-04T21:27:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T12:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/04\/fears-for-british-council-staff-trapped-in-afghanistan-despite-breakthrough"},"modified":"2022-07-04T21:27:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T12:27:16","slug":"fears-for-british-council-staff-trapped-in-afghanistan-despite-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46029","title":{"rendered":"Fears for British Council staff trapped in Afghanistan despite breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Contractors at \u2018high risk\u2019 of Taliban reprisals still have no idea how to get out of country safely<\/p>\n<p>More than 180 British Council contractors left trapped in Afghanistan have been given immediate permission by the UK government to apply online to come to Britain, but no hint of how to get out of the country safely.<\/p>\n<p>The partial breakthrough came after a campaign led by MPs and former colleagues of the staff that had been horrified that they had been left behind, and exposed to retribution by the Taliban for teaching values of diversity and openness.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/04\/fears-for-british-council-staff-trapped-in-afghanistan-despite-breakthrough\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Contractors at \u2018high risk\u2019 of Taliban reprisals still have no idea how to get out of country safelyMore than 180 British Council contractors left trapped in Afghanistan have been given immediate permission by the UK government to apply onlin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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":[46,319,717,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-foreign-policy","category-immigration-and-asylum","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/46029","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46030,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46029\/revisions\/46030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}