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A Duterte frat member backs Palace’s statement (Eagle News) –The Palace on Monday, Aug. 20, denied the claim of Jose Maria Sison, Communist Party of the Philippines’ founder, that President Rodrigo Duterte was ill. “Absolutely false. Perhaps that is the wish of (Sison) hence when he is fed with the wrong information on (Duterte’s) health, he easily believes it,” Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo said. According to Panelo, the President was “in robust health.” Ruell […]
(Eagle News)–Ten members of the Aegis Juris fraternity who have been accused of violating the Anti-Hazing Law over the death of Horacio Castillo III entered a not guilty plea in a Manila court on Tuesday, July 24. Arvin Balag, Mhin Wei Chan, Axel Munro Hipe, Oliver John Audrey Onofre, Joshua Joriel Macabali, Ralph Trangia, Robin Ramos, Jose Miguel Salamat and Danielle Hans Matthew Rodrigo personally entered the plea at the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law a bill that bans all forms of hazing and other initiation rites that will inflict physical and psychological harm, with the signing of the Anti-Hazing Act of 2018 or Republic Act No. 11053. It calls for stiffer penalties such as fine of P3 million, aside from penalty of reclusion perpetua for those who planned or participated in the hazing which results in death, rape,sodomy […]
(Eagle News) — The ten accused in the death of University of Sto. Tomas law student Horacio Castillo III were transferred to the Manila City Jail on Wednesday, May 23. Clad in their orange T-shirts and what appeared to be bullet-proof vests, Arvin Balag, Mhin Wei Chan, Axel Munro Hipe, Danielle Hans Matthew Rodrigo, Oliver John Audrey Onofre, Joshua Joriel Macabali, Ralph Trangia, Robin Ramos, Jose Miguel Salamat, and Marcelino Bagtang were brought out of the […]
(Eagle News) — The Senate released Aegis Juris fraternity leader Arvin Balag from the senate premises on Thursday night, December 21, more than two months after he was first detained there on October 18, This was confirmed by Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Jose Balajadia. He said Balag first underwent medical check-up as part of standard operating procedure before release. Three lawyers accompanied him. Balajadia said that he had already informed Senate President Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Francis Escudero on Thursday said members of the Aegis Juris fraternity who were attempting to cover up the death of hazing victim Horacio Castillo III had tarnished the reputation of the law profession. Speaking at a media briefing, Escudero said those who figured in the online exchange revealed by the Manila Police District in Wednesday’s hearing for this purpose “committed moral turpitude,” after all. “Maliwanag base sa chat nila na nag […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday said it was ready to offer Ralph Trangia, one of the primary suspects in the death of hazing-victim Horacio “Atio” Castillo III, witness protection, if he will tell all that he knows about the hazing incident. “While he may be a suspect as of the moment, depending on what he will tell our investigators, he could be a potential witness. And for this reason, the […]
(Eagle News) — The family of Horacio Castillo III has plans of including University of Sto. Tomas Faculty of Civil Law dean Nilo Divina and “other officials” of the school in the criminal complaint against those believed responsible in hazing death of the UST student. Without naming additional names, the Castillos’ lawyer, Lorna Kapunan, told reporters they would include the names of Divina and the others in a supplemental affidavit. She told reporters their […]
(Eagle News) — Makikipagpulong kay Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ang pamilya ni Horacio Castillo III sa darating na Miyerkules, Oktubre 4. Ito ang inihayag ng Department of Justice kasunod ng pakikipagkita nitong Huwebes ng pamilya Castillo kay Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II sa DOJ. Ayon kay Justice Undersecretary Erickson Balmes, hiniling ng pamilya Castillo kay Aguirre na tulungan sila na makapagtakda ng pulong sa Pangulo. “They wanted to thank the DOJ for the things we are […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Several senators are confident that the proposed amendments to the Anti-Hazing Law will be passed before December 2017. Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri said that the Senate will pursue the approval of the amendments especially because of the tragic death of University of Sto. Tomas law student Horacio Castillo III during the hazing activities of the Aegis Juris fraternity. In an interview with GMA’s, Unang Balita, Zubiri said he and […]
(Eagle News) — Fraternity members used three vehicles to take hazing victim Horacio Castillo III to the hospital. This is contrary to initial reports there were only two–the red pickup registered to Antonio Trangia, father of Ralph Trangia, an officer of the Aegis Juris fraternity; and the motorcycle used by John Paul Solano, who surrendered to Senator Panfilo Lacson on Friday. Chief Supt. Joel Coronel, Manila Police District head, said during the hearing of the […]
(Eagle News) — John Paul Solano, a primary suspect in the death of Horacio Castillo III, said on Monday that he initially lied to the police about where he found the hazing victim’s body because a fraternity member told him to do so. Solano, who spoke before the Senate committee on public order and dangerous drugs, declined, however, to say who exactly told him to do this at that time. He said he would just […]
