{"id":16352,"date":"2026-07-17T11:25:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T06:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=16352"},"modified":"2026-07-17T11:25:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T06:55:04","slug":"more-than-20-women-detained-in-new-taliban-crackdown-in-herat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/more-than-20-women-detained-in-new-taliban-crackdown-in-herat\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than 20 Women Detained in New Taliban Crackdown in Herat."},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16359\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/aherateeaad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/aherateeaad.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/aherateeaad-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/aherateeaad-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/aherateeaad-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/aherateeaad-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>More Than 20 Women Detained in New Taliban Crackdown in Herat.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Local sources say the Taliban detained more than 20 women and several men across Herat City on Thursday and Friday, July 2\u20133, 2026, as part of a renewed crackdown on women&#8217;s dress code.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Witnesses said several women were arrested in shopping areas and public streets, while a number of three-wheel taxi drivers were also detained for transporting women without the dress required by the Taliban. The arrests have sparked protests by Afghans in 30 countries, while Taliban authorities have not commented on the detentions.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Than 20 Women Detained in New Taliban Crackdown in Herat. Local sources say the Taliban detained more than 20 women and several men across Herat City on Thursday and Friday, July 2\u20133, 2026, as part of a renewed crackdown on women&#8217;s dress code. Witnesses said several women were arrested in shopping areas and public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16352","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=16352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16363,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16352\/revisions\/16363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}