{"id":8240,"date":"2014-04-28T17:45:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T09:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=8240"},"modified":"2014-04-28T19:05:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T11:05:44","slug":"during-obama-visit-to-manila-philippine-president-defends-record-on-journalist-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/04\/28\/during-obama-visit-to-manila-philippine-president-defends-record-on-journalist-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"During Obama visit to Manila, Philippine president defends record on journalist deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_102638021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7350\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_102638021.jpg\" alt=\"Journalist_Killing\" width=\"482\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_102638021.jpg 482w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_102638021-289x300.jpg 289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMANILA, Philippines &#8211; Philippine President Benigno Aquino III is pushing back against criticism that his government has done too little to address extrajudicial killings of journalists and others.<\/p>\n<p>Aquino was asked about human rights during a news conference with visiting U.S. President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Aquino says his government&#8217;s track record speaks for itself. He&#8217;s citing the prosecution of those implicated in a 2009 massacre that killed 52 journalists and civilians.<\/p>\n<p>But Aquino also says sometimes investigators determine journalists weren&#8217;t killed because of their profession. He says out of respect for privacy, officials don&#8217;t always disclose what they discover about, in his words, &#8220;shall we say, other issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Aquino says those who accuse his government of stifling dissent should look at local media where he says criticism of the government is tolerated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines &#8211; Philippine President Benigno Aquino III is pushing back against criticism that his government has done too little &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":7350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,95],"tags":[561,461,2249,2649,343,431],"class_list":["post-8240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-as","tag-human","tag-journalists","tag-killing","tag-philippines","tag-rights","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8240","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=8240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}