{"id":222446,"date":"2019-07-11T00:32:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T04:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=222446"},"modified":"2019-07-11T00:32:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T04:32:37","slug":"amnesty-international-stubborn-incorrigible-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/11\/amnesty-international-stubborn-incorrigible-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty International ‘stubborn, incorrigible’: Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo asked the organization to cite facts and figures on the names of the 27,000 deaths noting that failure to do so would mean their reports were indeed \u201ccondemnable malice\u201d. (File Photo<\/a>: Office of the Presidential Spokesperson\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— Malaca\u00f1ang described London-based human rights group Amnesty International as \u201cstubborn\u201d and \u201cincorrigible\u201d after it insisted that there were around 27,000 extrajudicial killings in the country.<\/p>\n

Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo asked the organization to cite facts and figures on the names of the 27,000 deaths noting that failure to do so would mean their reports were indeed \u201ccondemnable malice\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmnesty International not only is stubborn but incorrigible as well, when it insists on pursuing and advancing a baseless and false narrative on the government\u2019s war on drugs, specifically on the nature and number of deaths arising therefrom,\u201d Panelo said in a statement on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Panelo insisted that the group relied on figures provided by critics of President Rodrigo R. Duterte since government data showed there were only 5,425 deaths that arose from anti-illegal drugs operations.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmnesty International cannot parrot the bogus information it gets from the anti-Duterte forces and get away with it. It can not recklessly throw accusations without them showing credible proof of their authenticity,\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n

Panelo also dismissed the remark made by Amnesty Official Philippines section director Butch Olano, urging the President\u2019s spokesperson to \u201cdo his homework\u201d by reading their report.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis representation has surely done his homework, contrary to the screaming derogatory slanted headline of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, as the biased London-based human rights group suggested,\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n

Panelo pointed out that despite the lies foisted by the opposition, survey results would indicate that majority of Filipinos continue to trust the President.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday (July 9), Olano asked Panelo to \u201cdo his homework\u201d insisting that the 27,000 figure came from the Philippine National Police\u2019s data and not their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA\u00a0— Malaca\u00f1ang described London-based human rights group Amnesty International as \u201cstubborn\u201d and \u201cincorrigible\u201d after it insisted that there were around …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":215180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222446","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222452,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222446\/revisions\/222452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}