{"id":20074,"date":"2026-08-22T09:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T09:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/22\/afghan-national-arrested-termez-506-grams-opium\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T09:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T09:15:15","slug":"afghan-national-arrested-termez-506-grams-opium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/22\/afghan-national-arrested-termez-506-grams-opium\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan National Arrested in Termez With 506 Grams of Opium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uzbek media have reported that an Afghan national has been arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking and sales at the International Trade Center in the city of Termez.<\/p>\n<p>The Palmpir media outlet wrote on Saturday, 31 Asad, that the man was detained by security forces while selling opium to an undercover buyer in exchange for $2,500.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the detained individual was born in 2003 and was carrying 506 grams of opium at the time of his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The report said the narcotics had been smuggled into Uzbekistan from Afghanistan and that the suspect used one of his internal organs to transport them.<\/p>\n<p>Termez is one of Uzbekistan&#8217;s border cities with Afghanistan, and routes leading to Central Asia have in recent years been among the crossings of concern in connection with drug trafficking from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Afghan national was arrested in Termez, Uzbekistan, with 506 grams of opium, local media reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}