{"id":118932,"date":"2025-07-29T05:10:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T05:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/stephen-munyakho-back-home-after-14-years-in-saudi-arabia-death-row\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T05:10:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T05:10:28","slug":"stephen-munyakho-back-home-after-14-years-in-saudi-arabia-death-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/stephen-munyakho-back-home-after-14-years-in-saudi-arabia-death-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Munyakho back home after 14 years in Saudi Arabia death row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 29 \u2013 Stephen Munyakho, the Kenyan freed from a Saudi Arabia jail last Tuesday, has arrived back home.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Munyakho who had spent 14 years in jail facing a death sentence was received at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport by family, friends and government officials.<\/p>\n<p>His return follows the payment of diyya (blood money) amounting to approximately Sh 129 million, which was accepted by the family of the deceased, clearing the way for his freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi said the outcome resulted from sustained efforts by the government, civil society and individual Kenyans.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 29 \u2013 Stephen Munyakho, the Kenyan freed from a Saudi Arabia jail last Tuesday, has arrived back home. Munyakho who had spent 14 years in jail facing a death sentence was received at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport by family, friends and government officials. His return follows the payment of diyya (blood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}