{"id":9671,"date":"2019-09-22T11:17:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T06:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=9671"},"modified":"2019-09-22T11:17:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T06:17:34","slug":"iranian-hostage-freed-by-somali-pirates-after-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/9671","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Hostage Freed by Somali Pirates After Four Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somali pirates have released a sick Iranian hostage they captured more than four years ago due to his urgent need to medical care, a humanitarian group says.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Sharif Panahandeh was &#8220;seriously ill&#8221; and has been freed on humanitarian grounds, the Hostage Support Partnership (HSP), which helped negotiate his release, said.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian sailor , identified as Mohammad Shariff Panahandeh,\u00a0 \u00a0was taken to the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, for initial treatment and is set to be flown home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s severely malnourished. He lost a huge amount of weight. It reminded me of someone who\u2019s just been released from Belsen (a Nazi) concentration camp,\u201d John Steed of the HSP said.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past decade, thousands of crew have been taken hostage off the coast of Somalia and released for a ransom.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sharif&#8217;s freedom means pirates are holding just three people captive. The three remaining hostages are all Iranian nationals and were taken with Mr Sharif from a fishing boat in March 2015, according to the John Steed from HSP .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somali pirates have released a sick Iranian hostage they captured more than four years ago due to his urgent need to medical care, a humanitarian group says. Mohammad Sharif Panahandeh was &#8220;seriously ill&#8221; and has been freed on humanitarian grounds, the Hostage Support Partnership (HSP), which helped negotiate his release, said. The Iranian sailor , [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9672,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9671\/revisions\/9672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}