{"id":13245,"date":"2014-06-03T01:47:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T17:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=13245"},"modified":"2014-06-03T01:47:17","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T17:47:17","slug":"malaysia-clears-abducted-filipina-of-involvement-in-sabah-kidnapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/03\/malaysia-clears-abducted-filipina-of-involvement-in-sabah-kidnapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia clears abducted Filipina of involvement in Sabah kidnapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13330\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13330\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/malaysia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13330\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/malaysia.jpg\" alt=\"Malaysia. ShutterStock image\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/malaysia.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/malaysia-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malaysia. ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA -\u2013 The Filipina resort staff, who was abducted along with a Chinese tourist by suspected Filipino Muslim extremists off Sabah in April, was cleared by Malaysian authorities of suspected involvement in the kidnapping, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>DFA spokesman Charles Jose said the Malaysian government did not find any evidence linking Filipino Marcy Dayawan to the kidnappers who are believed to be members of the Abu Sayyaf, a group of armed bandits listed as a terrorist organization by the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMalaysia has cleared her of any involvement in the kidnapping,\u201d Jose said in a press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Dayawan and Chinese national Gao Huayun were snatched from Singamata Resort by gunmen on April 2 and were taken to the Abu Sayyaf stronghold of Tawi-Tawi in Southern Mindanao.<\/p>\n<p>They were released from captivity last May 30 in a joint rescue operation conducted by the Philippines and Malaysian forces. The two hostages were brought to Malaysia afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippine and Malaysian governments have denied paying ransom to Dayawan and Gao\u2019s captors.<\/p>\n<p>Jose said Dayawan, who is now under the care of the Philippine Embassy, will be repatriated to the Philippines soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPreparations are under way for her repatriation back to the Philippines,\u201d Jose said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA -\u2013 The Filipina resort staff, who was abducted along with a Chinese tourist by suspected Filipino Muslim extremists off &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[4513,4512,2435,851,343],"class_list":["post-13245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-w","tag-abduction","tag-cleared","tag-filipina","tag-malaysia","tag-philippines","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13245","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=13245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}