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By Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service The Inter-Parliamentary Union has reiterated what it said was its deep concern over the continued pre-trial detention of Senator Leila de Lima. The organization of parliaments made known its stand anew through a resolution it adopted as it closed its 138th Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland on March 28. The IPU also put to task the Senate, which it said has the “special responsibility to help ensure that its colleagues […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Leila de Lima is detained over “serious drug charges.” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque had this to say following former President Benigno Aquino III’s comment the former justice secretary was in jail because of her principles and political beliefs. Aquino made the pronouncement during the launch of her electronic book “Dispatches from Crame I,” as he urged the public to continue to support her. “The lady senator was arrested and incarcerated because […]
By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service Kerwin Espinosa’s confession he was a drug dealer before a Senate hearing in 2016 could not be submitted to the Department of Justice prosecution panel as evidence against him because he retracted the same during the preliminary investigation. CIDG Director Roel Obusan said Espinosa denied the testimonies he made in his answer submitted to the first prosecution panel tasked to look into the drug charges filed against him, Peter Lim, […]
(Eagle News)– The Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court has granted Senator Leila de Lima’s motion for a one-day medical furlough. In a motion dated March 6, Muntinlupa RTC Branch 205 Judge Amelia Fabros-Corpuz granted De Lima’s request that she be allowed to undergo a checkup following a Philippine National Police General Hospital CT-scan result that found a lump in her liver. The checkup will reportedly take place at the Philippine Heart Center on Monday, with all expenses […]
(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 […]
(Eagle News)–Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque greeted Senator Leila de Lima a “happy anniversary” as she marks her first year in detention in Camp Crame. In a statement, Roque said the senator’s “incarceration shows that the criminal justice system in the Philippines is alive, effective and working.” “Senator De Lima has been detained because of drug charges. She is the mother of all drug lords by allowing the illegal drug trade to proliferate inside the National Bilibid Prison […]
(Eagle News)– Former President Benigno Aquino III and several others trooped to Camp Crame on Saturday to mark Senator Leila de Lima’s first anniversary in detention. Apart from Aquino, Senator Franklin Drilon and former Interior Secretary Mar Roxas visited De Lima, who is detained on drug-related charges in connection with her alleged role in the drug trade in the New Bilibid Prison when she was justice secretary. On Wednesday, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque greeted De Lima […]
(Eagle News) — The Senate ethics committee has junked the three ethics cases filed against detained Senator Leila de Lima. It was Senator Franklin Drilon who moved for the dismissal of the cases filed by the House of Representatives led by Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, and by Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque and lawyer Abelardo de Jesus following allegations De Lima advised Ronnie Dayan against attending the House probe into her alleged role in illegal drug trading in the […]
(Eagle News) — “The breath of fresh air in the judiciary.” This was how Senator Leila de Lima described Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio after he decided to skip the House committee on justice’s hearing on the impeachment complaint against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. “The most to have a gripe as the most senior Justice to be bypassed for the Chief Justice position, he now exemplifies dignity and circumspection among the justices for refusing […]
(Eagle News) — The arraignment of Senator Leila de Lima was deferred on Friday after the prosecution moved for the amendment of the charge filed against her. The DOJ asked that the drug trading charge against the senator and her co-accused—former bodyguard Ronnie Dayan; former Bureau of Corrections director Franklin Bucayu; former aides Joenel Sanchez, Wilfredo Elli and Jose Adrian Dera; and convicted drug lord Jaybee Sebastian–filed before the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court Branch 206 be […]
(Eagle News) — The prosecution has dropped former Bureau of Corrections officer in charge Rafael Ragos as a respondent in the drug trafficking complaint filed against him, Senator Leila de Lima and Ronnie Dayan. According to the prosecution, Ragos, who already testified against De Lima in a House inquiry in 2016, is, after all, set to turn state witness. In his testimony, Ragos said he went to the senator’s house in Paranaque in two separate […]
(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court has junked Senator Leila de Lima’s petition questioning the arrest warrant issued against her in connection with her alleged role in the illegal drug trade in the New Bilibid Prison when she was justice secretary. The High Court ruled the petition dismissed with a vote of 9-6 for “lack of merit,” its Public Information Office said in a Twitter post. Those who voted for the dismissal were Associate Justices […]
