{"id":45899,"date":"2022-11-14T12:17:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T11:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/?p=45899"},"modified":"2022-11-14T12:17:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T11:17:32","slug":"alert-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/alert-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"Alert &#8211; Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>7 November 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Cartoonist shot and killed in ambush<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Cartoonist and art teacher Benharl Capote Kahil (Ben) was shot and killed on 5 November 2022 while riding his motorbike home in Lebak, Sultan Kudarat. The motive for the killing is unknown<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The cartoonist was known to his peers as a social commentator who used his art to fight disinformation in his country, as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/nation\/mindanao\/gunmen-kill-cartoonist-teacher-benharl-kahil-sultan-kudarat\/\">Rappler<\/a>\u00a0points out. He had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/2341522659429217\/posts\/pfbid0WjoLZunhPNtrUedkzLDYyJBraoDHnsJWBeJhyXvb9yHQuB4ynQL1hKnwzd9xqq5wl\/\">won several prizes<\/a>\u00a0in competitions organised by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/pitikbulagph\">Pitik Bulag<\/a>\u00a0collective as part of the #FactsFirstPH campaign against disinformation.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philstar.com\/opinion\/2022\/11\/07\/2221973\/editorial-protect-media-protect-democracy\">Kahil\u2019s drawings<\/a>\u00a0highlighted women\u2019s and children\u2019s rights and injustice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cartooning for Peace expresses its sincere condolences and calls for an impartial investigation to shed light on this murder that tends to illustrate a disturbing and growing culture of impunity and killings in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 November 2022 Cartoonist shot and killed in ambush Cartoonist and art teacher Benharl Capote Kahil (Ben) was shot and killed on 5 November 2022 while riding his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45900,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45899\/revisions\/45900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}