{"id":20292,"date":"2026-08-24T16:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T16:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/24\/39-arrested-zaranj-theft-human-trafficking-nimroz\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T16:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T16:30:20","slug":"39-arrested-zaranj-theft-human-trafficking-nimroz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/24\/39-arrested-zaranj-theft-human-trafficking-nimroz\/","title":{"rendered":"39 Arrested on Theft and Human Trafficking Charges in Zaranj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nimroz police command said 39 people have been arrested in the city of Zaranj over the past week on charges of theft, brawling, cooperation with killers and human trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ataullah Mostafa, head of the criminal investigations department, the individuals were detained by security forces in various parts of Zaranj.<\/p>\n<p>He said the cases of those arrested had been handed over to judicial and legal authorities after preliminary investigations were completed.<\/p>\n<p>Nimroz police said the arrests were carried out as part of efforts to curb criminal activity in different areas of the province.<\/p>\n<p>Zaranj is the capital of Nimroz province in southwestern Afghanistan and is considered an important route for travel and trade near the border with Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nimroz police say 39 people were arrested in Zaranj over theft, violence, murder links and human trafficking charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20292","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\/20292","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=20292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}