{"id":53059,"date":"2023-03-02T21:00:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/mar\/02\/pakistan-crackdown-on-afghan-refugees-leaves-four-dead-and-thousands-in-cells"},"modified":"2023-03-02T21:00:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T12:00:03","slug":"pakistan-crackdown-on-afghan-refugees-leaves-four-dead-and-thousands-in-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53059","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan crackdown on Afghan refugees leaves \u2018four dead\u2019 and thousands in cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asylum seekers in Karachi tell of terror of being sent back to the Taliban and despair at being shackled and held in Pakistani jails<\/p>\n<p>Refugees are reportedly dying in Pakistani prisons, and children are being arrested and tied together with ropes, as a wave of detentions and deportations spreads fearamong the hundreds of thousands of Afghans who have crossed the border since the Taliban took power.<\/p>\n<p>According to lawyers representing Afghans in detention, at least four people have died in custody, and thousands more, including children, are being held in prisons as Pakistan hardens its stance against Afghan citizens.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/mar\/02\/pakistan-crackdown-on-afghan-refugees-leaves-four-dead-and-thousands-in-cells\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asylum seekers in Karachi tell of terror of being sent back to the Taliban and despair at being shackled and held in Pakistani jailsRefugees are reportedly dying in Pakistani prisons, and children are being arrested and tied together with ropes, as a w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3615,"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":[46,491,60,494,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-migration","category-pakistan","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/53059","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\/3615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53060,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53059\/revisions\/53060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}