{"id":39204,"date":"2024-12-23T01:36:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T22:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=39204"},"modified":"2024-12-23T01:36:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T22:36:43","slug":"taliban-leader-orders-crackdown-on-human-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/23\/taliban-leader-orders-crackdown-on-human-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Leader Orders Crackdown on Human Trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-a:r4342535002326761295-content\" class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The leader of the Afghan Taliban movement, Hibatullah Akhundzada, has issued a decree directing government agencies to combat human trafficking in Afghanistan.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to the German Press Agency, Taliban government spokesperson Hamidullah Fertat said in a statement on Sunday that the decree instructs the Ministry of Interior to identify human traffickers, arrest them, and prosecute them in military courts across the country.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The decree stipulates prison sentences ranging from one to three years for traffickers who assist and exploit desperate Afghans seeking to flee the country, often using dangerous routes.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">There is a large Afghan community abroad, with an estimated 7.5 million Afghan refugees living in neighboring countries.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Decades of war, fighting, and instability have forced millions of Afghans to flee their homes.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of the Afghan Taliban movement, Hibatullah Akhundzada, has issued a decree directing government agencies to combat human trafficking in Afghanistan. According to the German Press Agency, Taliban government spokesperson Hamidullah Fertat said in a statement on Sunday that the decree instructs the Ministry of Interior to identify human traffickers, arrest them, and prosecute &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39205,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39204\/revisions\/39205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}