{"id":96241,"date":"2017-04-01T06:48:51","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T10:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=96241"},"modified":"2017-04-01T06:48:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T10:48:51","slug":"29-workers-rescued-from-saudi-arabia-indian-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/01\/29-workers-rescued-from-saudi-arabia-indian-fm\/","title":{"rendered":"29 workers rescued from Saudi Arabia: Indian FM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_96242\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96242\" style=\"width: 457px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Sushma_Swaraj_in_2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96242\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Sushma_Swaraj_in_2014.jpg\" alt=\"Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said the government had rescued 29 workers from Saudi Arabia and was bringing them home. (Photo By Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Indian Diaspora event) [CC BY 2.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0)])\" width=\"457\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Sushma_Swaraj_in_2014.jpg 457w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Sushma_Swaraj_in_2014-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-96242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said the government had rescued 29 workers from Saudi Arabia and was bringing them home. (Photo by<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3ASushma_Swaraj_in_2014.jpg\"> Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Indian Diaspora event) [CC BY 2.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0)]<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>NEW DELHI\u2014Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said the government had rescued 29 workers from Saudi Arabia and was bringing them home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have rescued those 29 workers from Saudi Arabia. We are paying for their air tickets as well,&#8221; Swaraj wrote on twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Last week the minister asked its ambassador in Saudi Arabia, Ahmad Javed, to seek release of 29 migrant workers detained there.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian migrant workers hailing from southern state of Telangana have reportedly been held in captivity by a company in Saudi Arabia without food or basic amenities.<\/p>\n<p>Swaraj&#8217;s intervention came after Telangana Non-Resident Indian (NRI) Affairs Minister K T Rama Rao appealed foreign minister that workers be repatriated to India.<\/p>\n<p>According to Rao, the workers had sought leave from the company to visit their homes in India, which the company denied besides demanding a ransom fro them.<\/p>\n<p>Over 3 million Indians are working in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>With dearth of jobs and low salaries at home, thousands of Indian workers travel to the Middle East every year for better prospects.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Swaraj also announced that two Indians abducted in South Sudan have been released.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am happy to inform about the release of two Indian nationals Midhun and Edward who were abducted in South Sudan,&#8221; Swaraj wrote on twitter on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Swaraj has been proactive and prompt in reaching out to people especially distressed Indians abroad and taking cognizance of issues pertaining to her ministry using social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI\u2014Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said the government had rescued 29 workers from Saudi Arabia and was bringing them &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":96242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[17287],"class_list":["post-96241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-sushma-swaraj","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}