{"id":51175,"date":"2022-12-16T02:29:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T17:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/dec\/15\/ministers-accused-of-unlawfully-denying-afghan-journalists-uk-visas"},"modified":"2022-12-16T02:29:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T17:29:34","slug":"ministers-accused-of-unlawfully-denying-afghan-journalists-uk-visas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51175","title":{"rendered":"Ministers accused of unlawfully denying Afghan journalists UK visas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Wallace and Suella Braverman \u2018turned their back\u2019 on former BBC journalists who are in danger, high court told<\/p>\n<p>Ministers have unlawfully \u201cturned their back\u201d on former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/bbc\">BBC<\/a> journalists whose lives are at risk from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/taliban\">Taliban<\/a> by refusing to relocate them from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/afghanistan\">Afghanistan<\/a> to the UK, the high court has heard.<\/p>\n<p>Eight Afghan journalists, who worked in high-profile roles for the BBC and other media agencies in the country from which British troops <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/28\/final-uk-evacuation-flight-leaves-kabul-airport-in-afghanistan\">withdrew last year<\/a>, are challenging the decision to deny them UK visas.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/dec\/15\/ministers-accused-of-unlawfully-denying-afghan-journalists-uk-visas\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Wallace and Suella Braverman \u2018turned their back\u2019 on former BBC journalists who are in danger, high court toldMinisters have unlawfully \u201cturned their back\u201d on former BBC journalists whose lives are at risk from the Taliban by refusing to relocate th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"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":[46,1762,1808,717,238,4,61,1159,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-bbc","category-ben-wallace","category-immigration-and-asylum","category-media","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-suella-braverman","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\/51175","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\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51176,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51175\/revisions\/51176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}