{"id":325718,"date":"2021-09-25T15:10:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T15:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/25\/taliban-publicly-display-bodies-of-alleged-kidnappers-in-herat"},"modified":"2021-09-25T17:21:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T17:21:37","slug":"taliban-publicly-display-bodies-of-alleged-kidnappers-in-herat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/09\/25\/taliban-publicly-display-bodies-of-alleged-kidnappers-in-herat\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban publicly display bodies of alleged kidnappers in Herat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four corpses taken to main square and hung from cranes by Afghanistan\u2019s  Islamist regime<\/p><p>Taliban authorities in the western Afghan city of Herat killed four alleged kidnappers and hung their bodies up in public to deter others, a local government official has said, in a sign of Afghanistan\u2019s new rulers\u2019 return to their harsh version of Islamic justice.<\/p><p>Graphic footage shows the dead bodies of at least four men with their clothes covered in blood hanging from cranes in the city\u2019s main squares as people watch.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/25\/taliban-publicly-display-bodies-of-alleged-kidnappers-in-herat\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/25\/taliban-publicly-display-bodies-of-alleged-kidnappers-in-herat\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four corpses taken to main square and hung from cranes by Afghanistan\u2019s  Islamist regimeTaliban authorities in the western Afghan city of Herat killed four alleged kidnappers and hung their bodies up in public to deter others, a local government offici&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,6,2038,4731,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325719,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325718\/revisions\/325719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}