{"id":79,"date":"2025-09-04T09:45:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/?p=79"},"modified":"2025-09-06T09:46:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T09:46:37","slug":"former-afghan-health-ministers-asylum-request-rejected-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/09\/04\/former-afghan-health-ministers-asylum-request-rejected-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Afghan Health Minister\u2019s Asylum Request Rejected in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ferozuddin Feroz, former Afghan Minister of Public Health who fled Afghanistan following the Taliban\u2019s return to power in 2021, has had his asylum request in the United Kingdom denied. According to the London-based <em>Daily Mail<\/em>, he is currently residing in a migrant hotel in Bournemouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feroz, who led Afghanistan\u2019s Ministry of Public Health from 2015 to 2020, was recognized as the \u201cbest minister\u201d at the 2019 Global Government Summit and received international acclaim. In an interview with the <em>Daily Mail<\/em>, he expressed that he had always believed the UK stood for values such as democracy, human rights, and cultural diversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He now lives in uncertain conditions, temporarily residing in a migrant accommodation. Nevertheless, Feroz remains active through social engagement and volunteer work with organizations providing services for the homeless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rejection of asylum for a prominent figure of Afghanistan\u2019s former government, who made significant achievements in health, raises questions about Western countries\u2019 approaches toward officials of the previous Afghan administration\u2014especially in light of the Taliban\u2019s threats to their professional and personal safety within the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Afghan Health Minister Ferozuddin Feroz is denied asylum in the UK, highlighting challenges faced by officials of Afghanistan\u2019s previous government under Taliban rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-migrant-news","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}