{"id":54834,"date":"2023-05-04T18:00:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/may\/04\/we-cant-remain-silent-journalists-refuse-to-give-up-despite-taliban-terror"},"modified":"2023-05-04T18:00:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T09:00:46","slug":"we-cant-remain-silent-journalists-refuse-to-give-up-despite-taliban-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54834","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We can\u2019t remain silent\u2019: journalists refuse to give up despite Taliban terror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, one-third of journalists have left, while those who remain live with threats, attacks, unlawful detention and extortion<\/p>\n<p>Mortaza Behboudi, an Afghan-French journalist, had been drawn back to Afghanistan, which he had left aged 21, to report on the deteriorating humanitarian conditions and situation for women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has a passion to give voice to people who had their voices taken from them, which is why he went back to Afghanistan,\u201d says Aleksandra Mostovaja, Behboudi\u2019s wife.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/may\/04\/we-cant-remain-silent-journalists-refuse-to-give-up-despite-taliban-terror\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, one-third of journalists have left, while those who remain live with threats, attacks, unlawful detention and extortionMortaza Behboudi, an Afghan-French journalist, had been drawn back to Afghanistan, which he &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1373,"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":[46,59,238,671,672,54,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-media","category-newspapers","category-newspapers-magazines","category-press-freedom","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\/54834","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\/1373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54835,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54834\/revisions\/54835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}