{"id":61200,"date":"2015-09-12T00:45:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T16:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=61200"},"modified":"2015-09-13T14:29:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T06:29:41","slug":"mocha-girls-arrested-in-malaysia-for-work-permit-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/09\/12\/mocha-girls-arrested-in-malaysia-for-work-permit-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mocha Girls\u2019 arrested in Malaysia for work-permit violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_61220\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61220\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/11987009_10155969006955394_6995865722545010743_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61220\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/11987009_10155969006955394_6995865722545010743_n.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Mocha Girls&quot; (Facebook photo)\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/11987009_10155969006955394_6995865722545010743_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/11987009_10155969006955394_6995865722545010743_n-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Mocha Girls&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MochaMemes\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook photo<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Filipina pop group \u201cMocha Girls\u201d were arrested and detained in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for performing in the country without the necessary work permit. They were eventually released without facing criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), the Mocha Girls were arrested by the Malaysian immigration authorities on September 4 and were released on September 10, serving a 6-day detention.<\/p>\n<p>The pop group worked under a \u2018social visit pass,\u2019 which did not permit them to perform professionally. Two Philippine embassy officials then assisted them and were able to secure their early release before the prescribed 14-day detention for work-permit violators.<\/p>\n<p>The Mocha Girls returned to Manila on September 11. They immediately released a statement in their Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs our producer failed to produce the work permit that his contractual commitment with us mandated him [to do], we were taken into custody and detained in the Malaysian Immigration,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMocha Girls [are] legitimate artists and professional performers in the Philippines&#8230; We were not detained for sexy performances as some would speculate,\u201d the statement continued.<\/p>\n<p>The pop group\u2019s manager planned to take \u2018appropriate legal action\u2019 against the producer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Filipina pop group \u201cMocha Girls\u201d were arrested and detained in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for performing in the country &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":61220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,46],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-61200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-entertainment-ph","tag-rewrite","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61200","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=61200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}