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(Eagle News)–The Department of the Interior and Local Government will ask the the Dutch government for help in the extradition of Communist Party of the Philippines founding chair Jose Maria Sison. In a statement, Interior Secretary Eduardo Año said the Philippine government will in particular seek a “special arrangement” with the country that has no extradition pact with the Philippines. According to Año, the grounds would be that Sison’s “‘refugee status’ is no longer tenable […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippine National Police has launched a manhunt for Peter Joemel Advincula, alias Bikoy, who has pending cases for estafa and large scale illegal recruitment before local courts. “The manhunt operation is underway to find him and to serve the pending warrants of arrest against Advincula, who surfaced before the Integrated Bar of the Philippines as ‘Bikoy’,” said PNP chief Gen. Oscar Albayalde, in a statement, on Friday. The PNP chief […]
(Eagle News)—The National Bureau of Investigation has asked its internal affairs division to look into Rappler’s allegations NBI agents who served the arrest warrant against the news site’s executive editor Maria Ressa for cyber libel harassed staff in the process. In a letter to Justice Undersecretary Adrian Sugay, NBI director Dante Gierran said the NBI’s IAD would make a report on the incident “as soon as possible.” “Rest assured that we will take this matter […]
(Eagle News)—“An incorrigible rabble-rouser and a perennial whiner.” This was how Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo described Senator Antonio Trillanes IV after he lashed out anew at the Duterte administration following the issuance of a warrant of arrest against him for libel. “Instead of facing this squarely, however, the Senator from Bicol ranted and released a fiery statement before the media, attacking the administration as his usual style,” Panelo said. According to Panelo, Trillanes was “certainly […]
(Eagle News) — A former vice mayor of Marilao, Bulacan has holed himself up in his house as authorities prepared to serve a warrant for his arrest. Authorities said Andre Santos, who has a pending warrant for qualified theft, has refused to go with them. Santos instead locked himself up on the second floor of his house and told authorities that he was armed. The police are currently negotiating for his surrender.
(Eagle News) – The Department of Justice has filed its motion for partial reconsideration with the Makati Regional Trial Court branch 148, seeking a partial reversal of its ruling on the non-issuance of an arrest warrant for Senator Antonio Trillanes IV. The DOJ’s motion was filed on Thursday, Oct. 25 at 4:30 p.m., according to Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Friday, Oct. 26. With the filing of the motion, the DOJ is asking the […]
By Vic Somintac Eagle News Service “Let us stop the drama by presscon and allow the legal process to take its course.” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque had this to say after the Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 150 ordered Senator Antonio Trillanes IV arrested and for a hold departure order to be issued against him. According to Roque, the court after all “has spoken.” “As the President has said, we will respect the decision of […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Friday, Sept. 7, insisted President Rodrigo Duterte wants him arrested even without a warrant. “The AFP (Armed Forces of the Philippines) and PNP (Philippine National Police) still have orders to have me arrested even without a warrant,” Trillanes, who has neen holed up in the Senate since Proclamation No. 572 declared void ab initio the amnesty granted to him, said. Trillanes made the statement even after Presidential Spokesperson Harry […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service The Makati City Regional Trial Court has ordered the arrest of alleged drug supplier Peter Go Lim. Branch 65 Presiding Judge Gina Bibat-Palamos issued the warrant also against Ruel Malindangan after finding probable cause for the charges of conspiracy to commit illegal drug trading filed by the Department of Justice against the two, Kerwin Espinosa and Marcelo Adorco. “After a careful evaluation of the information and the supporting evidence, […]
(Eagle News) — Resigned Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre on Thursday, June 7, said the Supreme Court decision that denied with finality detained Senator Leila de Lima’s plea for the arrest warrant issued against her to be nullified only shows that her case was “not of political persecution” as some claimed. “The SC’s decision on the motion for reconsideration of Senator Leila de Lima affirmed what we all knew along. Her arrest on drug charges indeed […]
WASHINGTON DC, United States (Reuters) – Washington police have obtained arrest warrants for members of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s security team, who attacked peaceful protesters during the leader’s visit to the U.S. capital last month, officials said on Thursday (June 15). Nine people were injured outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence in Washington during a May 16 brawl, which strained U.S.-Turkish relations. A video posted online showed men in dark suits chasing protesters and punching and […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Solicitor General Jose Calida asked the Supreme Court to allow the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court to resolve the illegal drug case filed against Senator Leila De Lima. During the oral arguments, Calida told the high court magistrates that the motion to dismiss initially filed by De Lima was lodged in the sala of Branch 204 Judge Juanita Guerrero. It is the Muntinlupa lower court, particularly Judge Guerrero, who should be the […]
