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(Eagle News) – The United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has “deplored” a recent statement of President Rodrigo Duterte urging police forces not to cooperate with UN special rapporteur who is tasked to investigate the alleged human rights violations in the Philippines. In his oral address on March 7 to the 37th human rights council, Zeid said he was also concerned with the “continued vilification” of UN Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard […]
(Eagle News) — Rappler on Friday slammed the administration for its alleged use of government resources to go after the media entity. “The Duterte administration is mustering state resources at the risk of grave embarrassment and accusations of arbitrariness and brazen harassment. What is this government so afraid of?” Rappler said in a statement posted on its site. The statement came after the National Bureau of Investigation filed a cyber-libel complaint against Rappler executive editor […]
(Eagle News) – Stop interfering. Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno had this to say to politicians who she claimed were “harassing” her and therefore encroaching in judicial independence. In a speech at the Panpacific University in Pangasinan on Friday, March 9, Sereno, wearing an all-black outfit, even appeared to liken herself to Captain America in the movie “The Avengers: Civil War,” to the protagonists of “Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers,” and to the main character […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law a measure that gives selected Philippine National Police officials the power to issue subpoenas. Republic Act No. 10973, signed by the President on March 1, 2018, particularly gives the PNP chief, and the director and deputy director for administration of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group the authority to issue subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum “in relation to their investigation.” “The subpoena shall state the […]
(Eagle News) — Former Philippine National Police Chief Alan Purisima has asked the anti-graft court to allow him to go on an 11-day trip to the United States so he can attend the annual meeting of his organization, and meet his family. Purisima told the Second Division, where he faces perjury cases over alleged falsehoods in his Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth from 2006 to 2009, and from 2011 to 2014, that he planned […]
She has already done a “magnificent job in alienating her own colleagues,” he says (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte is not bullying Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, the Palace said on Friday, noting that she has already “done a magnificent job in alienating her own colleagues.” In an online interview, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said proof of this was that it was Sereno’s colleagues themselves “who say she does not deserve the post.” “Hindi […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has named the wife of former Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro as the Philippines’ representative to the United Nations Children’s Fund. Based on the appointment paper dated March 7, Monica Prieto Teodoro’s term will last for a year–from September 26, 2017 to September 27, 2018. The female Teodoro served as Tarlac 1st District representative from 2007 to 2010. Her husband, who was defense secretary from 2007 to 2009, was offered the […]
(Eagle News) — Pinangunahan ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ang groundbreaking ceremony ng housing project sa Tarlac para sa mga pulis at sundalo. Sa talumpati ng Pangulo, matapos ang groundbreaking ceremony sinabi niyang ang bawat housing unit ay mayroong 60 square meters floor area na mas malaki kaysa sa mga nagdaang proyekto. Isang libong duplex-type housing units ang itatayo sa Casa San Miguel sa Barangay San Agustin at inaasahang matatapos sa susunod na taon. Kasama rin […]
(Eagle News)– The Philippines on Friday expressed its sympathies to Papua New Guinea (PNG), which was struck by a 7.5-magnitude earthquake on February 26 and a 6.8-magnitude aftershock on March 7. “We express our condolences to the government and people of (PNG) and pray that last night’s aftershock would be the last,” Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said in a statement on Friday. Cayetano made the statement days after President Rodrigo Duterte expressed solidarity […]
(Eagle News) — Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno on Thursday said the House justice panel’s finding of probable cause to impeach her was “not unexpected.” In an interview over CNN Philippines, Sereno said that she knew “from the beginning that the numbers were not in (her) favor.” “And that had been repeated so many times, countless times, in fact, by the leadership of the House..,” she said. Sereno’s statement was an echo of a statement […]
(Eagle News) — The Makabayan bloc on Thursday slammed what it said was the “highly irregular impeachment process” that resulted in the House justice panel finding probable cause to impeach Chief Justice Maria Lourdes. The seven-member bloc said that “contrary to the position taken by the majority members of the committee on justice, the Gadon impeachment complaint failed to show probable cause that CJ Sereno committed any impeachable offense.” “In fact, the grounds for impeachment were […]
(Eagle News) — The National Bureau of Investigation has filed a cyber-libel complaint against Rappler in connection with an article it published in 2012. Included in the complaint filed before the Department of Justice on March 2 were Reynaldo Santos, writer; Maria Ressa, Rappler editor in chief; and Rappler directors Manuel Ayala, Nico Jose Nolledo, Glenda Gloria, James Bitanga, Felicia Atienza, Dan Alber de Padua and Jose Maria Hofilena. The complaint stems from the article […]
