{"id":20043,"date":"2014-07-24T22:21:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T14:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=20043"},"modified":"2014-07-24T22:21:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T14:21:56","slug":"philippines-deports-australian-islamic-preacher-no-charges-filed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/24\/philippines-deports-australian-islamic-preacher-no-charges-filed\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines deports Australian Islamic preacher, no charges filed"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19074\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19074\" style=\"width: 887px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/australian-jihadist-cerantonio.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19074\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/australian-jihadist-cerantonio.png\" alt=\"The arrested Australian jihadist preacher Robert Edward &quot;Musa&quot; Cerantonio is now detained in Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig. His deportation is currently being processed. Screenshot from ABS-CBN footage.\" width=\"887\" height=\"569\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19074\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The arrested Australian jihadist preacher Robert Edward &#8220;Musa&#8221; Cerantonio is now detained in Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig. His deportation is currently being processed. Screenshot from ABS-CBN footage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA,\u00a0Philippines\u2014Philippine\u00a0authorities said Thursday they deported an Australian Islamic preacher suspected of links to terrorists based on YouTube videos allegedly showing him advocating jihad and urging local Muslims to support militants in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Cerantonio, alias Musa, was accompanied on a flight to Melbourne late Tuesday by four\u00a0Filipino\u00a0immigration agents, said Elaine Tan, spokeswoman for the Bureau of Immigration and Deportation.<\/p>\n<p>Tan said Cerantonio was deported for being an \u201cundocumented foreign national\u201d after the Australian government cancelled his passport. He was arrested two weeks ago in central Cebu province\u2019s Lapu-Lapu city but faced no formal charges, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Philippine\u00a0police said Cerantonio had called for jihad on YouTube and lectured\u00a0Filipino\u00a0Muslims to support the Islamic militant group also known as ISIS or ISIL that controls parts of Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Federal Police said that Cerantonio\u2019s social media postings were \u201coffensive and disturbing\u201d but did not violate Australia\u2019s law. It said in a statement that the police \u201cwill continue to monitor and assess this material for any breaches of Australian law into the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cerantonio had been living in the country since 2013, according to\u00a0Philippine\u00a0authorities. Police Senior Superintendent Conrad Capa has said that the Australian government had co-ordinated with\u00a0Philippine\u00a0police to locate Cerantonio, who was under surveillance by local authorities for two weeks prior to his arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA,\u00a0Philippines\u2014Philippine\u00a0authorities said Thursday they deported an Australian Islamic preacher suspected of links to terrorists based on YouTube videos allegedly showing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headline","category-news-ph","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20043","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=20043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}