{"id":50849,"date":"2022-12-04T04:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T19:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/03\/revealed-uk-has-failed-to-resettle-afghans-facing-torture-and-death-despite-promise"},"modified":"2022-12-04T04:00:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T19:00:02","slug":"revealed-uk-has-failed-to-resettle-afghans-facing-torture-and-death-despite-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50849","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: UK has failed to resettle Afghans facing torture and death despite promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those who risked their lives helping British government face a \u2018toxic combination of incompetence and indifference\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Afghan nationals who were promised resettlement to the UK nearly a year ago are facing torture and death while they wait for a response from the British government, the <em>Observer<\/em> can reveal.<\/p>\n<p>Not one person has been accepted and evacuated from Afghanistan under the Home Office\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/afghan-citizens-resettlement-scheme\" title=\"\">Afghan citizens\u2019 resettlement scheme <\/a>(ACRS), launched in January, prompting claims that ministers are showing a \u201ctoxic combination of incompetence and indifference\u201d. The scheme was intended to help Afghans who worked for, or were affiliated with, the British government \u2013 including its embassy staff and British Council teachers \u2013 and all of whom face severe harm at the hands of the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/03\/revealed-uk-has-failed-to-resettle-afghans-facing-torture-and-death-despite-promise\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who risked their lives helping British government face a \u2018toxic combination of incompetence and indifference\u2019Afghan nationals who were promised resettlement to the UK nearly a year ago are facing torture and death while they wait for a response f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3470,"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":[46,1879,1440,717,4,61,44,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-foreign-commonwealth-and-development-office","category-home-office","category-immigration-and-asylum","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-uk-news","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\/50849","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\/3470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50850,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50849\/revisions\/50850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}