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(Eagle News) — The Department of Foreign Affairs assured the families of the seven Filipino seafarers who were detained in Libya that it was exerting best efforts to bring them home. In a statement, the DFA said Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. already held a meeting “with the Libyan official on the sides of the Global Compact for Migration meeting in Morocco last month.” “The Secretary reiterated his request to Libyan Embassy Chargé d’Affaires […]
(Eagle News)—Opposition senators on Thursday, July 26, urged the Supreme Court to allow detained Senator Leila de Lima to represent them in oral arguments on their petition against the Philippines’ withdrawal from the International Criminal Court. In their four-page manifestation with motion, Senators Francis Pangilinan, Franklin Drilon, Bam Aquino, Risa Hontiveros, Antonio Trillanes IV and De Lima herself noted the detained senator was, they believe, the “best” who could “present and argue” the case, the issues […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detained on Saturday at an unsanctioned rally in central Moscow, two days ahead of Vladimir Putin’s inauguration for a fourth Kremlin term. The 41-year-old protest leader was detained along with a number of his supporters as a huge crowd packed a central square in Moscow to protest Putin’s swearing ceremony on Monday. As police grabbed Navalny some supporters shouted “Shame” in Ukrainian, a famous slogan […]
(Eagle News) — Stop attacking me. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque had this to say to detained Senator Leila de Lima, with whom he has been engaged in a word war since her first anniversary in detention. “I leave her alone as a matter of policy because she’s in jail. But stop attacking me,” he said in a television interview on Thursday. According to Roque, he “only responds” when she says something about him. “Stop expecting […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters) — The Chinese government said on Wednesday (April 26) that a Taiwan rights activist detained on suspicion of endangering national security was in good health, and had reassured his family in a letter. Li’s case is still being investigated and processed, Ma Xiaoguang, spokesman for China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, told a regular news briefing. Li’s family and the Taiwan government have been frustrated at not being told where Li is being held, […]
by Tom HANCOCK BEIJING, China (AFP) — A Chinese media outlet that carried a call for President Xi Jinping to resign has been shut down and two of its staff have been detained for more than 100 days, according to a social media post Friday. Wujie News website in March published an anonymous letter accusing the Chinese leader of a litany of policy mistakes and asking him to step down for the good of the […]
by Laura MANNERING HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Angry protesters gathered in Hong Kong Friday after a city bookseller broke silence to reveal how he was blindfolded, interrogated and detained in China for eight months for trading titles critical of Beijing. In a surprise interview sure to infuriate Beijing, Lam Wing-kee late Thursday vowed to break bail, refusing to return to the mainland, and further defied Chinese authorities by blowing the lid on how he […]
In Saudi Arabia, two Filipinos were included among 3,000 detainees due to security reasons.
