{"id":26998,"date":"2011-09-20T11:38:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T10:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=26998"},"modified":"2011-09-20T11:38:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T10:38:03","slug":"afghanistan-tv-presenter-forced-to-apologise-to-warlords-at-gunpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=26998","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: TV presenter forced to apologise to warlords &#8212; at gunpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A journalist was forced to apologise to <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Afghanistan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Afghan<\/a> war lords at gun point.\u00a0<a title=\"RFE - TV Presenter Apologizes To Afghan Warlords -- At Gunpoint\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/tv_presenter_apologizes_to_afghan_warlords_at_gunpoint\/24333489.html\" target=\"_blank\">Afghan-American journalist<\/a> Nabil Miskinyar claims he was picked up for lunch on 12 September\u00a0by four men, including Najibullah Kabuli,\u00a0owner of the private Emrooz Television channel. Miskinyar says he was forced to conduct an interview with two guns pointed at him. The journalist, known for his hard-hitting monologues,\u00a0was told he and his family would be killed if he did not apologise. Miskinyar\u00a0said in the interview &#8220;if I did not say the right things, or if I have attributed false things to these leaders of the resistance, then I apologise to the Afghan people.'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A journalist was forced to apologise to Afghan war lords at gun point.\u00a0Afghan-American journalist Nabil Miskinyar claims he was picked up for lunch on 12 September\u00a0by four men, including Najibullah Kabuli,\u00a0owner of the private Emrooz Television channel. Miskinyar says he was forced to conduct an interview with two guns pointed at him. The journalist, known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[51,3824,3825,3826,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26998"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27022,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26998\/revisions\/27022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}