{"id":26728,"date":"2025-01-21T11:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T11:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=26728"},"modified":"2025-01-21T11:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T11:01:07","slug":"afghan-prisoner-released-from-u-s-and-transferred-to-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2025\/01\/afghan-prisoner-released-from-u-s-and-transferred-to-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan prisoner released from U.S. and transferred to Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate has announced that Khan Mohammad, an Afghan prisoner in the United States, has been released and transferred to Afghanistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Zia Ahmad Takal, deputy spokesperson for the ministry, wrote in a statement on Tuesday, January 21, that the Afghan citizen was freed after extended negotiations with the U.S. in exchange for the release of American citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The statement reads: &#8220;The Islamic Emirate considers this exchange a positive example of resolving issues through dialogue; it views U.S. actions that contribute to the normalization and development of relations between the two countries positively.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ministry further mentioned that the Afghan citizen had been detained nearly two decades ago in Nangarhar and had been sentenced to life imprisonment by U.S. courts.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry, the Afghan national had been serving his sentence in California, United States of America.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate has announced that Khan Mohammad, an Afghan prisoner in the United States, has been released and transferred to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":26729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,976,234,8,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-politics","category-us","category-governance","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":60,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26730,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26728\/revisions\/26730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}