{"id":53579,"date":"2023-03-20T13:52:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T04:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/20\/former-sas-soldier-oliver-schulz-arrested-alleged-war-crime-accused-of-killing-afghan-civilian"},"modified":"2023-03-20T13:52:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T04:52:58","slug":"former-sas-soldier-arrested-and-charged-in-nsw-for-alleged-war-crime-over-killing-of-afghan-civilian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53579","title":{"rendered":"Former SAS soldier arrested and charged in NSW for alleged war crime over killing of Afghan civilian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver Schulz, 41, was arrested in the southern highlands of New South Wales by Australian federal police and NSW police<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2023\/feb\/28\/australia-live-news-marles-china-defence-politics-supply-chains-voice-to-parliament-referendum-nsw-vic-albanese-weather\">Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A former SAS soldier accused of killing an Afghan civilian during a mission in southern Afghanistan more than a decade ago has been arrested and charged with the war crime of murder.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver Schulz, 41, was arrested in the southern highlands of New South Wales by Australian federal police and NSW police. He is listed to face Queanbeyan local court on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/20\/former-sas-soldier-oliver-schulz-arrested-alleged-war-crime-accused-of-killing-afghan-civilian\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver Schulz, 41, was arrested in the southern highlands of New South Wales by Australian federal police and NSW policeFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"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":[46,43,1585],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-australia-news","category-australian-military"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53579","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\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53609,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53579\/revisions\/53609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}