{"id":22886,"date":"2026-09-29T08:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T08:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/29\/russia-afghan-refugee-expulsions-western-double-standards\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T08:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T08:01:14","slug":"russia-afghan-refugee-expulsions-western-double-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/29\/russia-afghan-refugee-expulsions-western-double-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia says Afghan refugee expulsions show Western double standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Zakharova, spokesperson for Russia&#8217;s Foreign Ministry, has criticised the expulsion of Afghan refugees by the United States and European countries, describing the policy as evidence of the West&#8217;s double standards on human rights.<\/p>\n<p>She said that criticising the Taliban administration for human rights violations while at the same time expelling Afghans from Western countries adds to what she described as a \u201ctwo-faced and opportunistic\u201d approach.<\/p>\n<p>Her remarks came as Germany recently decided to deport nearly 500 Afghans. According to the report, nearly half of these people have not been convicted of any crime.<\/p>\n<p>The expulsion of Afghan refugees from Western countries has drawn criticism at a time when the human rights situation and broad restrictions under Taliban rule remain one of the main points of debate over the forced return of migrants to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia says the expulsion of Afghan refugees by Western countries exposes double standards on human rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22886","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=22886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}