{"id":45987,"date":"2026-04-15T21:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=45987"},"modified":"2026-04-15T21:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:00:15","slug":"nepali-youth-amrit-jha-released-after-detention-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/nepali-youth-amrit-jha-released-after-detention-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepali Youth Amrit Jha Released After Detention in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Kathmandu, April 15<\/strong> : Amrit Jha, a Nepali national from Udayapur who had been detained in Iran, has been released, Foreign Minister Shishir Khanal confirmed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Jha, who was serving as a ship captain, was released on Wednesday afternoon. According to the minister, the Nepali Consulate General in Iran and the Nepali Embassy in Qatar are currently in contact with him.<\/p>\n<p>He had been working for a Dubai-based shipping company and was taken into custody while returning to Dubai carrying oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, April 15 : Amrit Jha, a Nepali national from Udayapur who had been detained in Iran, has been released, Foreign Minister Shishir Khanal confirmed on Wednesday. Jha, who was serving as a ship captain, was released on Wednesday afternoon. According to the minister, the Nepali Consulate General in Iran and the Nepali Embassy in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45990,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45987\/revisions\/45990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}