{"id":12338,"date":"2025-06-27T23:17:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T18:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=12338"},"modified":"2025-06-27T23:17:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T18:47:47","slug":"killing-addicts-instead-of-treating-them-a-new-accusation-against-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/killing-addicts-instead-of-treating-them-a-new-accusation-against-the-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing addicts instead of treating them; a new accusation against the Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12334\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/motad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>According to reliable sources, instead of providing treatment to addicts, Taliban forces are killing them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Public sources reported that at least seven addicts have died in a Taliban prison in Kandahar province due to violence by this group.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>According to these sources, the bodies of these victims have been in the hospital morgue for more than 20 months and have not yet been handed over to their families.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>While the Taliban have remained silent on the matter so far, reports of the killing of addicts and their violent treatment by this group had been published earlier.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>These incidents come at a time when human rights organizations have repeatedly warned of widespread violations of citizens\u2019 rights and the worsening human rights situation after the Taliban\u2019s return to power.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to reliable sources, instead of providing treatment to addicts, Taliban forces are killing them. Public sources reported that at least seven addicts have died in a Taliban prison in Kandahar province due to violence by this group. According to these sources, the bodies of these victims have been in the hospital morgue for more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12339,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12338\/revisions\/12339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}