(Eagle News) — Members of the Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group are seen on guard outside the Senate building, and inside the Senate building on Tuesday, Sept. 3, after President Rodrigo Duterte has revoked and voided the grant of amnesty given to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV.
Trillanes, on Tuesday, said that he is also ready to be arrested and insisted on the validity of the amnesty granted to him by former President Benigno Aquino III in October 2010.
Aquino signed a proclamation eight years ago granting amnesty to Trillanes and other soldiers involved in the Oakwood Mutiny in July 2003, the Marine standoff last February 2006 and the Manila Peninsula siege in November 2007.
Trillanes claimed he would “not resist arrest” and would be willing to be incarcerated again while he is exhausting all legal means to prove that the grant of amnesty to him by Aquino in 2010 was valid.
He insisted he had applied for amnesty and had completed the requirements for it. (Photos by Meanne Corvera, Eagle News Service)