{"id":3649,"date":"2015-04-02T17:14:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T17:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3649"},"modified":"2015-04-02T17:14:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T17:14:13","slug":"aquino-gives-blood-money-to-help-save-ofw-from-death-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3649","title":{"rendered":"Aquino gives blood money to help save OFW from death row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGiven the fact that Ronaldo was held in solitary confinement for four years prior to his trial, his allegation that he was repeatedly tortured in order to force him to \u2018confess\u2019, and the use of this \u2018confession\u2019 in his trial, his conviction is clearly unsafe,\u201d Said Boumedouha, Deputy Director of Amnesty International&#8217;s Middle East and North Africa Programme, said.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are concerned that unless the allegations of torture of Ronaldo and the two other Filipino men are independently and impartially investigated, the current appeal will also be fundamentally unfair,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The appeal for Ronaldo\u2019s case was held on March 9, 2015. Amnesty \u00a0International said it has raised the torture claims before the Qatar government twice already but has not gotten a response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the Qatari government\u2019s eagerness to project a global image of a wealthy glamorous nation committed to respecting human rights, this case has brought to light a more sinister side to the Gulf state that the international community can no longer continue to ignore,\u201d Boumedouha said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGiven the fact that Ronaldo was held in solitary confinement for four years prior to his trial, his allegation that he was repeatedly tortured in order to force him to \u2018confess\u2019, and the use of this \u2018confession\u2019 in his trial, his conviction is clearly unsafe,\u201d Said Boumedouha, Deputy Director of Amnesty International&#8217;s Middle East and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}