{"id":2182,"date":"2016-11-02T13:21:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T17:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=2182"},"modified":"2016-11-02T13:21:28","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T17:21:28","slug":"us-stops-sale-of-rifles-over-concerns-about-human-rights-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/11\/02\/us-stops-sale-of-rifles-over-concerns-about-human-rights-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"US stops sale of rifles over concerns about human rights violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US State Department halted the planned sale of some 26,000 assault rifles to the Philippines\u2019 national police after Senator Ben Cardin said he would oppose it.<\/p>\n<p>Aides said Cardin, the top Democrat on the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was reluctant for the United States to provide the weapons given concerns about human rights violations in the Philippines.\u00a0 The Philippine police and government said alternative suppliers would be found.<\/p>\n<p>The relationship between the United States and the Philippines has been complicated lately by President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s angry reaction to criticism from Washington of his violent battle to rid the country of illegal drugs.\u00a0 More than 2,300 people have been killed in police operations or by suspected vigilantes in connection with the anti-narcotics campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The US State Department halted the planned sale of some 26,000 assault rifles to the Philippines\u2019 national police after Senator Ben Cardin said he would oppose it. Aides said Cardin, the top Democrat on the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/11\/02\/us-stops-sale-of-rifles-over-concerns-about-human-rights-violations\/\" title=\"US stops sale of rifles over concerns about human rights violations\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2],"tags":[1423,117,1295],"class_list":{"0":"post-2182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-human-rights","8":"category-news","9":"tag-arms-sale","10":"tag-drugs","11":"tag-philippines","12":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2183,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions\/2183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}