{"id":73416,"date":"2015-04-07T01:50:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T01:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=73416"},"modified":"2015-04-07T01:50:14","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T01:50:14","slug":"nigerian-al-jazeera-journalists-released-by-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=73416","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Al Jazeera journalists released by military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Al Jazeera has confirmed that its two journalists held by the Nigerian military since 24\u00a0March 2015 have been released.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ahmed Idris and Ali\u00a0 (in photo) Mustapha were allowed to leave the Maiduguri hotel where they were detained, and they have now completed the journey back to Al Jazeera\u2019s bureau in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Salah Negm, director of news for Al Jazeera English, said:\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019re pleased for Ahmed and Ali that their ordeal is over. They\u2019re looking forward to spending some time with their families and loved ones. I know that both of them want to thank everyone that helped secure their release, including NGOs, politicians and fellow journalists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy of\u00a0 Al Jazeera<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Jazeera has confirmed that its two journalists held by the Nigerian military since 24\u00a0March 2015 have been released. Ahmed Idris and Ali\u00a0 (in photo) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":73392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,751],"tags":[20284,18229,20300],"class_list":["post-73416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-global-news","tag-ahmed-idris","tag-al-jazeera-journalists","tag-ali-mustapha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}