{"id":40229,"date":"2015-01-29T13:07:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T05:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=40229"},"modified":"2015-01-29T13:07:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T05:07:57","slug":"junjun-binay-arrested-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/29\/junjun-binay-arrested-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Junjun Binay arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_39977\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39977\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/junjun-binay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39977\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/junjun-binay.jpg\" alt=\"Makati Mayor Junjun Binay (Facebook photo)\" width=\"640\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/junjun-binay.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/junjun-binay-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/junjun-binay-600x429.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39977\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Makati Mayor Junjun Binay (Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 After being cited for contempt by the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee (BRC) for ignoring Senate invites, Makati Mayor Jejomar Erwin &#8216;Junjun&#8217; Binay Jr. \u2014 son of Vice President Jejomar Binay \u2014 was arrested Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Anticipating the arrest, which has been signed on Tuesday by Senate BRC Chair Senator TG Guingona, Binay&#8217;s supporters \u00a0started surrounding the city hall as early as 6:00 AM Thursday. A holy mass was also held at around 8:30 AM inside the city hall to show solidarity with their Mayor.<\/p>\n<p>Binay visited the tomb of his late wife Kennely Ann Lacia-Binay before heading to his office.<\/p>\n<p>With a detention order at hand, Senate sergeant-at-arms Jose Baladia Jr. Arrested the younger Binay at the Makati City Hall at around 9:00 AM (Manila time) and left, heading to the Senate, about an hour later.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mali po ang nangyayari doon kaya matatag po tayo [na] sabihin nang paulit-ulit na hindi na tayo haharap diyan (What is happening is wrong, that&#8217;s why we can firmly say again and again that we will not face [the Senate hearing]),&#8221;Binay said to the media before being taken to the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of facing the Senate, Binay plans to go to the Supreme Court for assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 After being cited for contempt by the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee (BRC) for ignoring Senate invites, Makati Mayor &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":39977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","mauthors-ching-dee","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40229","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=40229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}