{"id":317581,"date":"2021-07-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/%d8%a7%d8%ae%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b1\/sheikh-zakzaky-released\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T13:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T10:15:15","slug":"sheikh-zakzaky-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/news\/sheikh-zakzaky-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheikh Zakzaky released"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>According to the AhlulBayt World Assembly News Portal: <\/strong>After enduring six years of brutal imprisonment, Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, an oppressed Nigerian cleric, was released.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He and his wife, Mrs. Zinat Ibrahim, were released today, Wednesday, July 28, 2021, and went to their son\u2019s house in the city of Kaduna.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Today, a Nigerian court has acquitted Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, and his wife from all charges.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The ruling on the release of Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife had already been issued by a court, but the Nigerian government and military refused to comply.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">So far, the Nigerian government has blocked Zakzaky\u2019s release under various excuses and has not even allowed him access to medical care.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In recent months, as Zakzaky\u2019s health condition worsened, human rights groups have repeatedly called for the release of Nigeria&#8217;s Shiite leader.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Nigerian court has acquitted Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, and his wife from all charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":317578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1728],"class_list":["post-317581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-sheikh-ibrahim-zakzaky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404888,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317581\/revisions\/404888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}