{"id":39229,"date":"2026-04-11T15:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T11:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/?p=39229"},"modified":"2026-04-11T15:52:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T11:22:44","slug":"taliban-arrests-former-afghan-parliament-member-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/39229\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Arrests Former Afghan Parliament Member, Says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Taliban Interior Ministry said the group has arrested Shapoor Hussainzoi, a former member of Afghanistan\u2019s House of Representatives.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hussainzoi wrote on his Facebook page that he was detained \u201cillegally\u201d despite having received a protection card from the Taliban commission for \u201ccontact with personalities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Rahimullah Baryal, deputy spokesman for the Taliban Interior Ministry, rejected the claim and said the arrest was related to the \u201cbeating of his wife to the point of death.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Baryal added that the victim\u2019s wife had filed a complaint against him and that the case has now been referred to a Taliban court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the former lawmaker\u2019s Facebook statements were intended \u201cto clear his name.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hussainzoi also wrote on his Facebook page that his two young children had been \u201cabducted\u201d and that the Taliban ignored his requests to find them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He claimed his children have left the country, while their identity documents and passports are in his possession. He also alleged that the complainant is currently in Iran and has links with the Taliban Interior Ministry investigator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban Interior Ministry said the group has arrested Shapoor Hussainzoi, a former member of Afghanistan\u2019s House of Representatives. Hussainzoi wrote on his Facebook page that he was detained \u201cillegally\u201d despite having received a protection card from the Taliban commission for \u201ccontact with personalities.\u201d However, Rahimullah Baryal, deputy spokesman for the Taliban Interior Ministry, rejected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":39230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[7988,7990,7985,7987,7981,7984,7986,7991,7608,7989,7983,7982,1238,2335,5719,5706],"class_list":["post-39229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","tag-beating","tag-complainant","tag-contactwithpersonalities","tag-facebook","tag-hussainzoi","tag-illegally","tag-interiorministry","tag-investigator","tag-iran-2","tag-lawmakers","tag-representatives","tag-shapoor","tag-afghanistan","tag-deeyar","tag-deeyar-television","tag-deeyar-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39233,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39229\/revisions\/39233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}