{"id":36894,"date":"2019-08-10T09:48:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T01:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=36894"},"modified":"2019-08-10T09:51:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T01:51:17","slug":"canadian-citizen-released-after-year-long-detention-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=36894","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Citizen Released After Year-Long Detention In Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug 10 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; Lebanon&#8217;s Security Chief, Abbas Ibrahim, announced on Friday that, Kristian Lee Baxter, a 44-year-old Canadian citizen, has been released, after being detained in Syria for over a year, for &#8220;breaking Syrian law,&#8221; it was  reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This achievement is in Lebanon&#8217;s interest because, it brings the country back to the world map, with its humanitarian endeavours and its capacity to resolve problems,&#8221; Ibrahim said, during a joint press conference, held with the Canadian Ambassador to Lebanon, Emmanuelle Lamoureux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ibrahim thanked the Syrian authorities for being cooperative, during the negotiations for the release of Baxter and an American citizen.&#8211; NNN-NNA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug 10 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; Lebanon&#8217;s Security Chief, Abbas Ibrahim, announced on Friday that, Kristian Lee Baxter, a 44-year-old Canadian citizen, has been released, after being detained in Syria for over a year, for &#8220;breaking Syrian law,&#8221; it was reported. &#8220;This achievement is in Lebanon&#8217;s interest because, it brings the country back to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":36900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36894"}],"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=36894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}