{"id":35444,"date":"2012-01-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev6.blazedream.in\/ICSF\/newss\/kuwait-seizes-iraqi-boat-deports-fishermen"},"modified":"2012-01-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T00:00:00","slug":"kuwait-seizes-iraqi-boat-deports-fishermen","status":"publish","type":"newss","link":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/newss\/kuwait-seizes-iraqi-boat-deports-fishermen\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait seizes Iraqi boat, deports fishermen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kuwait has seized an Iraqi vessel in its territorial waters and deported six fishermen who had been on board, the official KUNA news agency cited a top official as saying on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant undersecretary for border security affairs major-general Mohammad Yussef Al-Sabah said the Iraqi fishermen were arrested seven nautical miles into Kuwaiti territorial waters. He did not say when the incident took place.<\/p>\n<p>The fishermen were later handed over to Iraqi authorities, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The incident prompted threats from the chairman of the Basra provincial council, Sabah al-Bazuni, who according to Kuwait&#8217;s official KUNA news agency warned that &#8220;force will be used if Kuwaiti coast guards repeat their attacks on Iraqi fishermen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Iraq&#8217;s fishermen have repeatedly complained of harassment by the Kuwaiti and Iranian coast guards, but Kuwait maintains that Iraqi fishermen are arrested only when they cross into territorial waters.<\/p>\n<p>A Kuwaiti coast guard was killed in January last year in a shoot-out with Iraqi sailors inside the emirate&#8217;s territorial waters.<\/p>\n<p>Iraqi authorities said three fishermen were wounded in the incident and four others went missing.<\/p>\n<p>2012 Khaleej Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":28370,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177],"tags":[2326],"region":[28],"source":[562],"country":[],"state":[],"city":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/35444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/newss"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/35444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35444"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=35444"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=35444"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=35444"},{"taxonomy":"state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state?post=35444"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=35444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}