{"id":51826,"date":"2023-01-13T01:04:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T16:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2023\/jan\/12\/british-council-contractors-afghanistan-allowed-to-come-to-uk"},"modified":"2023-01-13T01:04:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T16:04:17","slug":"british-council-workers-hunted-in-afghanistan-allowed-to-come-to-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51826","title":{"rendered":"British Council workers \u2018hunted\u2019 in Afghanistan allowed to come to UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contractors forced to move between safe houses given green light to leave but others remain in the country<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 100 British Council contractors forced to live in hiding since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan have been given the green light to come to the UK.<\/p>\n<p>After 18 months of moving between safe houses while they were \u201chunted\u201d by soldiers of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/20\/taliban-ban-afghan-women-university-education\">new regime<\/a>, about half the contractors who worked for the council had their final security checks signed off.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2023\/jan\/12\/british-council-contractors-afghanistan-allowed-to-come-to-uk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contractors forced to move between safe houses given green light to leave but others remain in the countryNearly 100 British Council contractors forced to live in hiding since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan have been given the green light to come &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2107,"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":[46,319,717,491,4,61,44,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-foreign-policy","category-immigration-and-asylum","category-migration","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/51826","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\/2107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51830,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51826\/revisions\/51830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}