{"id":159600,"date":"2020-09-07T15:48:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T13:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/09\/07\/philippines-pardons-us-marine-for-killing-transgender-woman\/"},"modified":"2020-09-07T15:48:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T13:48:54","slug":"philippines-pardons-us-marine-for-killing-transgender-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=159600","title":{"rendered":"Philippines pardons US Marine for killing transgender woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President\u2019s move to free Joseph Scott Pemberton condemned as \u2018shameless mockery of justice\u2019The Philippine president has pardoned a US Marine in a surprise move that will free him from imprisonment for the 2014 killing of a transgender Filipino woman that sparked anger in the former American colony.Teodoro Locsin Jr, the Philippine foreign secretary, tweeted that Rodrigo Duterte had \u201cgranted an absolute pardon\u201d to L\/Cpl Joseph Scott Pemberton \u201cto do justice\u201d, but did not elaborate. Duterte was to deliver televised remarks on Monday night where he would discuss Pemberton\u2019s case, a presidential spokesman, Harry Roque, said. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/07\/philippines-pardons-us-marine-for-killing-transgender-woman\" target=\"_blank\">Philippines pardons US Marine for killing transgender woman<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President\u2019s move to free Joseph Scott Pemberton condemned as \u2018shameless mockery of justice\u2019The Philippine president has pardoned a US Marine in a surprise move that will free him from imprisonment for the 2014 killing of a transgender Filipino woman that sparked anger in the former American colony.Teodoro Locsin Jr, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}