{"id":42747,"date":"2015-02-17T18:50:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T10:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=42747"},"modified":"2015-02-17T18:50:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T10:50:42","slug":"pimentel-pushes-anew-senate-inquiry-into-media-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/17\/pimentel-pushes-anew-senate-inquiry-into-media-killings\/","title":{"rendered":"Pimentel pushes anew Senate inquiry into media killings"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11082\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11082\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Koko-Pimentel-e1401297804162.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11082\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Koko-Pimentel-e1401297804162.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Koko Pimentel. Photo courtesy of Pimentel's Facebook page.\" width=\"960\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Koko-Pimentel-e1401297804162.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Koko-Pimentel-e1401297804162-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Koko Pimentel. Photo courtesy of Pimentel&#8217;s Facebook page.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0 \u2013 Another media killing incident has prompted Senator Aquilino \u2018Koko\u2019 Pimentel Jr. to renew his call for a Senate inquiry in aid of legislation on the spate of media killing in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Pimentel, chairman of the Senate committee on justice and human rights, made this proposal as he denounced the latest ambush-slaying of local broadcaster Maurito Lim of Tagbiliran City in Bohol.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThe savage media killings blotted the country\u2019s image,\u201d Pimentel said.<\/p>\n<p>The Mindanao lawmaker called on police authorities to exert extra efforts in arresting the killers of media practitioners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dWe cannot allow impunity to reign especially at the expense of press freedom,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Pimentel has filed a Senate resolution seeking an investigation into the media killings mostly in Mindanao in order to get to the bottom of the worsening cases.<\/p>\n<p>The senator expressed dismay over slow resolution of media work-related cases, including 80 journalists killed since 1992 as listed by Press watchdogs.<\/p>\n<p>He noted the alleged gun men have either escape or remain at-large with police usually facing a blank wall because of refusal of the witnesses to cooperate for fear of their own lives.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest World Press Freedom Index, the Philippines improved to 141st from last year\u2019s 149th place among 180 countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0 \u2013 Another media killing incident has prompted Senator Aquilino \u2018Koko\u2019 Pimentel Jr. to renew his call for a Senate &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","category-politics","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42747","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=42747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}