{"id":50063,"date":"2022-11-08T02:23:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T17:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/07\/philippines-police-prisons-chief-gerald-bantag-percival-mabasa-percy-lapid"},"modified":"2022-11-08T02:23:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T17:23:41","slug":"philippine-police-allege-prisons-chief-ordered-murder-of-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50063","title":{"rendered":"Philippine police allege prisons chief ordered murder of journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gerald Bantag behind killing of Percival Mabasa in Manila suburb last month, authorities claim<\/p>\n<p>Police in the Philippines have accused the country\u2019s prisons chief of ordering the killing of a prominent radio journalist whose death sparked international alarm.<\/p>\n<p>Percival Mabasa, 63, who went by the name Percy Lapid on his programme, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/05\/outrage-after-philippine-journalist-percival-mabasa-shot-dead-in-manila\">shot dead in a Manila suburb on 3 October as he drove to his studio.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/07\/philippines-police-prisons-chief-gerald-bantag-percival-mabasa-percy-lapid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerald Bantag behind killing of Percival Mabasa in Manila suburb last month, authorities claimPolice in the Philippines have accused the country\u2019s prisons chief of ordering the killing of a prominent radio journalist whose death sparked international a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":485,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,669,238,55,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-journalist-safety","category-media","category-philippines","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/485"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50064,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50063\/revisions\/50064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}