{"id":139204,"date":"2025-10-27T19:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=139204"},"modified":"2025-10-27T19:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:03:13","slug":"french-cyclist-freed-by-russia-says-detention-was-strange-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=139204","title":{"rendered":"French cyclist freed by Russia says detention was \u2018strange experience\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA French cyclist freed after weeks in a Russian jail for illegally crossing the border on Monday described his time in the country as a \u201crather strange experience\u201d but said the Russians he met were \u201cfriendly\u201d.<br \/>\nSofiane Sehili, 44, was arrested on the Russian-Chinese border in early September while attempting to break the record for the fastest endurance cycle from Lisbon to Vladivostok.<br \/>\nSehili, who describes himself as an ultra-endurance racer and adventure cyclist, had faced two years in a&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/russia-central-asia\/article\/3330536\/french-cyclist-freed-russia-says-detention-was-strange-experience?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA French cyclist freed after weeks in a Russian jail for illegally crossing the border on Monday described his time in the country as&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139204"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}