{"id":32670,"date":"2012-02-03T16:23:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T16:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=32670"},"modified":"2012-02-03T16:23:10","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T16:23:10","slug":"un-philippines-journalist-defamation-conviction-a-violation-of-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=32670","title":{"rendered":"UN: Philippines journalist defamation conviction a violation of free speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Human Rights Committee have\u00a0found that the defamation conviction of a <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Philippines\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Philippines\" target=\"_blank\">Philippines<\/a> journalist violated the journalist&#8217;s <a title=\"Free Media: UN: Philippines Journalist Defamation Conviction a Violation of Free Speech\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freemedia.at\/index.php?id=288&amp;tx_ttnews[tt_news]=5994&amp;cHash=37bd1860b7\" target=\"_blank\">right to free expression<\/a>. In the landmark ruling, the UN committee said that the\u00a0prison sentence handed to journalist <a title=\"IFEX: Journalist receives four and a half year prison sentence for article on congressman's alleged love affair\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifex.org\/philippines\/2007\/04\/02\/journalist_receives_four_and_a\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Adonis<\/a>\u00a0of Bombo Radyo, following his reporting on an\u00a0alleged affair between a Philippine congressman and a married woman, was &#8220;incompatible&#8221; with Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.\u00a0The UNHRC has given the Philippine government 180 days to provide &#8220;information about the measures taken to give effect to the Committee&#8217;s views&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Human Rights Committee have\u00a0found that the defamation conviction of a Philippines journalist violated the journalist&#8217;s right to free expression. In the landmark ruling, the UN committee said that the\u00a0prison sentence handed to journalist Alexander Adonis\u00a0of Bombo Radyo, following his reporting on an\u00a0alleged affair between a Philippine congressman and a married woman, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[1593,346,185,727,4262,311],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32689,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32670\/revisions\/32689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}