{"id":222913,"date":"2023-05-30T15:06:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T07:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=222913"},"modified":"2023-05-30T15:18:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T07:18:11","slug":"lebanese-minister-says-saudi-citizen-kidnapped-in-beirut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=222913","title":{"rendered":"Lebanese Minister Says Saudi Citizen Kidnapped In Beirut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BEIRUT, May 30 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; A Saudi Arabian citizen was kidnapped in Lebanon&#8217;s capital, Beirut on Sunday, Lebanese caretaker Minister of Interior, Bassam Mawlawi, said yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mawlawi said in a tweet that, Lebanon will work &#8220;on liberating any citizens who are exposed to any harm on Lebanese soil.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;What happened affects Lebanon&#8217;s relationship with its brothers, and the perpetrators will be punished harshly,&#8221; he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Saudi man was kidnapped from a neighbourhood, close to the airport road in Beirut, the al-Jadeed TV reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man works for Saudi Airlines in Beirut, and the kidnappers demanded a ransom of 400,000 U.S. dollars for his release, in a phone call from the southern suburbs of Beirut, news outlet, L&#8217;Orient Today reported in the evening, quoting the Saudi newspaper Okaz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Saudi embassy in Lebanon announced in a statement that, it had received a report from the family of a citizen that they lost contact with him at dawn on Sunday. Staff members of the embassy were instructed not to go out in the streets.&#8211; NNN-NNA &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT, May 30 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; A Saudi Arabian citizen was kidnapped in Lebanon&#8217;s capital, Beirut on Sunday, Lebanese caretaker Minister of Interior, Bassam Mawlawi, said yesterday. Mawlawi said in a tweet that, Lebanon will work &#8220;on liberating any citizens who are exposed to any harm on Lebanese soil.&#8221; &#8220;What happened affects Lebanon&#8217;s relationship with its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":222916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[286,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222913"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222917,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222913\/revisions\/222917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/222916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}