{"id":68893,"date":"2025-01-13T17:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/jan\/13\/afghanistan-women-taliban-forced-marriage-morality-police-kabul-human-rights"},"modified":"2025-01-13T17:00:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T08:00:04","slug":"the-taliban-made-me-marry-my-boss-how-one-word-led-to-a-forced-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68893","title":{"rendered":"The Taliban made me marry my boss: how one word led to a forced marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan\u2019s \u2018morality police\u2019 arrested Samira at work in Kabul \u2013 and then made the 19-year-old marry her employer<\/p>\n<p>It was a normal summer morning in July last year when 19-year-old Samira* made her way to the carpet-weaving shop where she worked in Kabul to pick up her wages. She had no way of knowing that in just a few hours, her life as she knew it would be over.<\/p>\n<p>She would end the day in a Taliban police station, a victim of forced marriage with her entire future decided for her by a group of strangers with guns.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/jan\/13\/afghanistan-women-taliban-forced-marriage-morality-police-kabul-human-rights\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan\u2019s \u2018morality police\u2019 arrested Samira at work in Kabul \u2013 and then made the 19-year-old marry her employerIt was a normal summer morning in July last year when 19-year-old Samira* made her way to the carpet-weaving shop where she worked in Kab&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4575,"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":[46,847,1908,59,860,53,86,79,61,44,281,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-employment","category-forced-marriage","category-global-development","category-global-education","category-human-rights","category-law","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-women","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","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\/68893","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\/4575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68894,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68893\/revisions\/68894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}