{"id":12427,"date":"2025-07-05T05:55:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T01:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=12427"},"modified":"2025-07-05T05:55:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T01:25:44","slug":"forced-phone-searches-by-taliban-ombudsmen-in-laghman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/forced-phone-searches-by-taliban-ombudsmen-in-laghman\/","title":{"rendered":"Forced phone searches by Taliban ombudsmen in Laghman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12431\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/laqmand.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Local sources in Laghman province say that members of the Taliban\u2019s Department of Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice have been forcibly searching citizens\u2019 mobile phones and pockets across the city in recent days.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>According to reports, the ombudsmen have been patrolling markets and public roads, stopping and searching young people using abusive language. Some who resisted the searches have been detained and beaten.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Eyewitnesses say that these actions have been ongoing for several days, and that citizens\u2019 concerns about privacy violations have increased.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The Taliban\u2019s Department of Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice has been accused of harassing citizens on several occasions in the past. Over the past four years, the group has imposed sweeping restrictions on individual freedoms, especially for women, affecting many aspects of people\u2019s private lives.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local sources in Laghman province say that members of the Taliban\u2019s Department of Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice have been forcibly searching citizens\u2019 mobile phones and pockets across the city in recent days. According to reports, the ombudsmen have been patrolling markets and public roads, stopping and searching young people using abusive language. Some who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12427","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\/12427","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=12427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12433,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12427\/revisions\/12433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}