{"id":300967,"date":"2018-08-01T09:09:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T09:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300967"},"modified":"2019-06-19T06:14:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T06:14:50","slug":"21-indian-fishermen-stranded-in-iran-released-to-be-repatriated-in-batches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/21-indian-fishermen-stranded-in-iran-released-to-be-repatriated-in-batches\/","title":{"rendered":"21 Indian Fishermen stranded in Iran released, to be repatriated in batches"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_300968\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-300968\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-300968\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/fishermen-300x278.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/fishermen-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/fishermen-454x420.jpg 454w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/fishermen.jpg 513w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-300968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representational Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Twenty-one Indian fishermen, who were stranded in Iran for more than six months have been released and will be repatriated in batches from August 3, said External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI am happy to inform that 21 Indian fishermen from Tamil Nadu who were stranded at Nakhitaghi (Iran) have been released with the efforts of Indian Embassy in Iran and our Consulate at Bandar Abbas. We are repatriating them to Chennai in batches starting from 3rd August 2018,\u201d Swaraj Tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami had last month urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to direct the Indian Embassy in Iran to take required steps in bringing back the 21 fishermen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;The 21 fishermen were engaged in fishing in three boats which belonged to their Iranian employers. They had not received a fair remuneration for the same and also their request of\u00a0return\u00a0to\u00a0India\u00a0was turned down&#8221;, K Palaniswami had said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-one Indian fishermen, who were stranded in Iran for more than six months have been released and will be repatriated in batches from August 3, said External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. \u201cI am happy to inform that 21 Indian fishermen from Tamil Nadu who were stranded at Nakhitaghi (Iran) have been released with the efforts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":300968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[3920,395,644],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300970,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300967\/revisions\/300970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}