{"id":11379,"date":"2014-05-21T23:05:04","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T15:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=11379"},"modified":"2014-05-21T23:05:04","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T15:05:04","slug":"9-chinese-fishermen-arrested-in-hasa-hasa-shoal-enter-not-guilty-plea-in-palawan-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/21\/9-chinese-fishermen-arrested-in-hasa-hasa-shoal-enter-not-guilty-plea-in-palawan-court\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Chinese fishermen arrested in Hasa-Hasa Shoal enter \u201cnot guilty\u201d plea in Palawan court"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9758\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9758\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/turtle-chinese-poachers-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9758\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/turtle-chinese-poachers-1.jpg\" alt=\"PNP Photo\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/turtle-chinese-poachers-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/turtle-chinese-poachers-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/turtle-chinese-poachers-1-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9758\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PNP Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PUERTO PRINCESA CITY -\u2013 The nine Chinese fishermen arrested in Hasa-Hasa Shoal early this month for illegal possession of endangered green sea and hawksbill turtles entered a \u201cnot guilty\u201d plea Wednesday at Branch 51 of the Palawan Regional Trial Court (RTC).<\/p>\n<p>The fishermen made the plea at the sala of Judge Ambrosio de Luna for alleged violation of two sections of the Philippine Fisheries Law that deal with poaching and collecting of endangered and critically-endangered marine species.<\/p>\n<p>They were represented by a lawyer provided by the Public Attorney\u2019s Office (PAO) to continue hearing their cases following their refusal to hire a private counsel.<\/p>\n<p>With the help of local interpreter Felix Lao, the arraignment proved a bit difficult since translation had to be in Mandarin language then translated to their local dialect in Hainan Province.<\/p>\n<p>For claiming they are indigent fishermen, De Luna ruled that the nine Chinese fishermen obtain certificates of indigency from the Chinese Embassy to qualify for the services of a legal counsel from PAO.<\/p>\n<p>They are currently detained at the Palawan Provincial Jail (PPJ).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUERTO PRINCESA CITY -\u2013 The nine Chinese fishermen arrested in Hasa-Hasa Shoal early this month for illegal possession of endangered &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":9758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[1666,3545,2994,3178],"class_list":["post-11379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-chinese","tag-hasa-hasa-shoal","tag-palawan","tag-poachers","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11379","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}