{"id":1240,"date":"2018-06-25T12:24:02","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T07:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2018-06-25T12:24:02","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T07:54:02","slug":"iranian-baloch-fishermen-freed-by-sh-ab-hamids-interceding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/2018\/06\/1240\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Baloch fishermen Freed by Sh. Ab. Hamid\u2019s Interceding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Puntland state of Somalia have released 17 Baloch fishermen after 7 months. The most influential Sunni scholar has asked the authorities to pardon and release them.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n\u201cSunniOnline\u201d reported, the fishermen entered Somalia waters accidently in Oct. 2017 and captured by coastal guards. Their fishing boot was detained, too.<br \/>\nCaptain of the boot was shot dead by the guards in the incident as the fishermen tried to run away considering the guards \u201cpirates\u201d.<br \/>\nIn the initial trial, a court in Bosaso fined each fisherman 1500$ with two years in prison. But after interceding of Shaikh Abdol-Hamid, president of Darululoom Zahedan and release of a group of Somali fishermen from Iran, the Baloch fishermen were pardoned and then released on May 10, 2018.<br \/>\nThey reached home after 40 days as the agent taken by the owner of the boot kept them in his house demanding fees.<br \/>\nShaikh Abdol-Hamid sent many letters and messages to the president of the Puntland State of Somalia via local scholars and preachers asking him to free the fishermen as soon as possible.<br \/>\nAccording to the fishermen, they were prisoned in a jail with low facilities and bad environment in Bosaso.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Puntland state of Somalia have released 17 Baloch fishermen after 7 months. The most influential Sunni scholar has asked the authorities to pardon and release them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-views"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1242,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions\/1242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}