{"id":1118069,"date":"2023-07-04T15:18:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T15:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=6c18a7fe9e0ef29184f6d3f648862535"},"modified":"2023-07-04T15:18:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T15:18:20","slug":"human-rights-defenders-slam-nomination-of-elliott-abrams-to-diplomacy-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/07\/04\/human-rights-defenders-slam-nomination-of-elliott-abrams-to-diplomacy-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Defenders Slam Nomination of Elliott Abrams to Diplomacy Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden on Monday quietly nominated Elliott Abrams to serve on a bipartisan diplomacy commission, a move that human rights advocates condemned as outrageous given the longtime Republican official&rsquo;s past as a defender of Latin American death squads and cheerleader for murderous U.S. foreign policy interventions. &ldquo;A totally indefensible decision from Biden,&rdquo; MSNBC&rsquo;s Mehdi Hasan wrote on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/human-rights-defenders-slam-nomination-of-elliot-abrams-to-diplomacy-panel\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden nominated Abrams, who has defended death squads and interventions, to serve on a bipartisan diplomacy commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1328,1012,3153,64455,1014,64456,4,33764],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1118134,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118069\/revisions\/1118134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}