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(Eagle News) – Senator Antonio Trillanes IV said he is prepared for whatever will happen to him, describing himself as a “fatalist” but stressed that he also relies on the word of Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III that no arrest will happen while he is inside the Senate premises. “Tito Sotto is the most senior senator dito sa Senado in terms of service, 1992 pa senador na ‘yan. So, he values the institution, […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Thursday, Sept. 6, presented documents he said would show that he applied for amnesty in connection with the Oakwood mutiny and Manila Peninsula siege in 2003 and 2007, respectively. The documents, which he said he sourced from his “friends from the Armed Forces of the Philippines,” included what was supposed to be a letter from the then-Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin that said the applications of the 38 […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Justice maintained Senator Antonio Trillanes IV was still facing a coup d’état case despite a Makati court issuing an order dismissing the same. In a statement, Acting Prosecutor General Richard Anthony Fadullon said this was because the amnesty granted to Trillanes, on which the dismissal of the case was supposed to be anchored on, was void ab initio, or was as if it never existed in the first place. “Thus […]
(Eagle News) – Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said that there is no “double jeopardy” yet on the criminal case of coup d’etat previously filed against senator Antonio Trillanes since the hearing had not yet reached trial on its merits, and was dismissed because of the grant of amnesty in 2010. Roque, a former human rights lawyer, also claimed that the grant of amnesty by former President Benigno Aquino III to Trillanes was just “political accommodation” […]
(Eagle News) — If Senator Antonio Trillanes has proof he applied for amnesty, then he can show this in court if he challenges the amnesty revocation, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said on Wednesday, Sept. 5. Speaking to ANC, Guevarra said this document, after all, was “what seems to be missing.” Under Proclamation No. 572, President Rodrigo Duterte voided the amnesty granted to Trillanes, noting a certification from the Armed Forces of the Philippines that said […]
By Earlo Bringas Eagle News Service (Eagle News) – Senator Antonio Trillanes IV spent the night inside the Senate building after news about the voiding of his amnesty came out Tuesday, September 4. Trillanes maintained that he will stay at the Senate premises until his lawyers have completed and filed the legal remedies needed to prove the validity of the amnesty granted to him by former President Benigno Aquino III. About 20 of his supporters […]
(Eagle News) – “The past finally caught up with Senator Trillanes.” This was how Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque described the recent turn of events on the voiding of the 2010 amnesty granted to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV by former President Benigno Aquino III. Roque, who had also served as legal counsel before for Trillanes himself and other mutineers, said the senator had never admitted guilt to the crime of coup d’etat. What will now […]
(Eagle News) – Senator Antonio Trillanes IV spoke at the Senate session hall Tuesday afternoon, September 3, to play previous news videos that showed him beating the deadline for application of amnesty in 2010. He claimed that the facts he presented and video showed him making a personal appearance for his amnesty application during the administration of former President Benigno Aquino III. He also showed in the video screen Aquino’s Proclamation No. 75, “as […]
(Eagle News) – Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III said that the protection from arrest given to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV is only while he is inside the Senate premises, but he is free to go out if he so wishes. At the same time, Sotto said that President Rodrigo Duterte has the prerogative to void or revoke a previous grant of amnesty. “It is within the power of the President,” he said. He […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Antonio Trillanes IV said that he had been assured by the Senate leadership that no arrests will be made while he is inside the Senate premises, as he was placed “under the custody” of Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III. “Basically I was placed in the custody of the Senate President until my lawyers file the necessary petition in the Supreme Court,” he told reporters shortly after emerging from a […]
(Eagle News)—–Opposition senator Bam Aquino on Tuesday, Sept. 3, slammed President Rodrigo Duterte’s revocation of the amnesty granted to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, calling it a “clear oppression” of members of the opposition. “Clearly irregular itong nangyayri. Probably illegal and unconstitutional,” he said. According to Aquino, the amnesty granted to Trillanes in 2010 has the concurrence of Congress. “Di pa ako nakakarinig ng amnesty na nirevoke. It might be the first time in our history,” […]
(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 […]
