{"id":20092,"date":"2026-08-22T11:33:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T11:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/22\/peshawar-police-detain-two-afghan-journalists\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T11:33:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T11:33:15","slug":"peshawar-police-detain-two-afghan-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/22\/peshawar-police-detain-two-afghan-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Peshawar police detain two Afghan journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peshawar police detained two Afghan journalists, Ibrahim Amiri and Abid Momand, from their place of residence last night and transferred them to an unknown location.<\/p>\n<p>According to published information, the two journalists had travelled to Peshawar to obtain a visa for a European country. It has been said that they were staying in the city with the support of Reporters Without Borders (RSF).<\/p>\n<p>So far, no further details have been released about the reason for their detention or where they are being held.<\/p>\n<p>Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan&#8217;s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, is one of the cities that a number of Afghan journalists and migrants visit to pursue immigration and visa cases. Reporters Without Borders is also among the international organisations that support media freedom and journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peshawar police detained two Afghan journalists who had travelled to the city to apply for a European visa, reports say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-migrant-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20092","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=20092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}