{"id":62864,"date":"2024-03-26T17:30:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T08:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2024\/mar\/26\/minister-johnny-mercer-name-sources-afghan-inquiry-jail-term-british-troops-war-crimes"},"modified":"2024-03-26T17:30:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T08:30:24","slug":"minister-told-to-name-sources-in-afghan-inquiry-or-face-potential-jail-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62864","title":{"rendered":"Minister told to name sources in Afghan inquiry or face potential jail term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Mercer given 10 days to reveal source of claims British troops engaged in war crimes<\/p>\n<p>The minister for veterans\u2019 affairs, Johnny Mercer, has been given 10 days to reveal the source of allegations British troops engaged in war crimes in Afghanistan, or face a potential prison sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Mercer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2024\/feb\/20\/uk-minister-says-he-cannot-disprove-claims-afghans-were-unlawfully-killed\">in effect admitted last month<\/a> in front of the public inquiry into the claims that he believed members of the SAS had engaged in dozens of unlawful killings of Afghan civilians between 2010 and 2013.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2024\/mar\/26\/minister-johnny-mercer-name-sources-afghan-inquiry-jail-term-british-troops-war-crimes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Mercer given 10 days to reveal source of claims British troops engaged in war crimesThe minister for veterans\u2019 affairs, Johnny Mercer, has been given 10 days to reveal the source of allegations British troops engaged in war crimes in Afghanistan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3874,"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":[46,86,938,4,61,52,83,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-law","category-military","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-war-crimes","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\/62864","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\/3874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62865,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62864\/revisions\/62865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}