{"id":806115,"date":"2022-09-20T11:56:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T11:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/sep\/20\/madeleine-mccann-parents-lose-challenge-over-portuguese-libel-case"},"modified":"2022-09-20T11:56:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T11:56:06","slug":"madeleine-mccanns-parents-lose-challenge-over-portuguese-libel-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/09\/20\/madeleine-mccanns-parents-lose-challenge-over-portuguese-libel-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Madeleine McCann\u2019s parents lose challenge over Portuguese libel case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Couple sought redress from European court of human rights after libel case against detective was overturned<\/p>\n<p>The parents of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/madeleinemccann\">Madeleine McCann<\/a> have lost their European court of human rights challenge to the Portuguese supreme court\u2019s decision to throw out their libel case against a former detective who implicated them in their daughter\u2019s disappearance.<\/p>\n<p>Kate and Gerry McCann sued Gon\u00e7alo Amaral, who led the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/apr\/22\/madeleine-mccann-suspects-latest-portugal\">botched police search<\/a> for Madeleine in 2007, over statements he made in a book, documentary and newspaper interview alleging that they were involved in Madeleine\u2019s disappearance.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/sep\/20\/madeleine-mccann-parents-lose-challenge-over-portuguese-libel-case\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Couple sought redress from European court of human rights after libel case against detective was overturnedThe parents of Madeleine McCann have lost their European court of human rights challenge to the Portuguese supreme court\u2019s decision to throw out &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[471,2944,6,52763,640,52728,20459,1314,1,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806115"}],"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\/6227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806313,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806115\/revisions\/806313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}