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(Eagle News)–Senator Antonio Trillanes IV pleaded not guilty to the libel charges filed against him by former Davao Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte. Trillanes entered the plea before the Davao Regional Trial Court Branch 54 on Tuesday, Jan. 15. The four counts of libel stem from Trillanes’ claims the presidential son was linked to drug smuggling and extortion involving ride-sharing service Uber and other companies. Trillanes is out on bail for rebellion and is facing coup d’tat […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Antonio Trillanes IV said on Tuesday, Jan. 15, that he personally appeared at his arraignment for libel before the Davao City Regional Trial Court to plead not guilty to four counts of libel filed against him by former Davao City vice mayor Paolo Duterte and his brother in law, Manases Carpio. The young Duterte and Carpio filed the libel cases against the opposition senator who accused them of extorting money […]
(Eagle News)—Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Monday, Dec. 10, posted bail for the libel cases filed against him. Trillanes went before Pasay Judge Rowena Nieves Tan to post the P96,000 bail set by Judge Melinda Alconcel-Dayanghirang of Davao City Regional Trial Court Branch 54, or P24000 for each of the four counts of libel filed against him. The charges were filed by former Davao Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte, after he was accused by Trillanes of being […]
(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) — Senator Antonio Trillanes IV will post bail for the libel case filed against him by former Davao Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte on Monday, Dec. 10. Trillanes issued the statement after Judge Melinda Alconcel-Dayanghirang of the Davao City Regional Trial Court Branch 54 issued a warrant for his arrest stemming from the charges filed after he linked the presidential son to the P6.4-billion shabu shipment that slipped the country recently, and accused him […]
(Eagle News) — A Davao court has ordered the arrest of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV for libel. The arrest warrant issued by Judge Melinda Alconcel-Dayanghirang of the Davao City Regional Trial Court Branch 54 stems from the libel charges filed by former Davao Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte against the senator. The presidential son filed several libel complaints against Trillanes after the senator accused him of being a member of an international crime syndicate, of the Davao […]
(Eagle News) — Naghain ng mosyon ang Department of Justice (DOJ) sa Davao City para hilingin sa hukuman doon na may hawak sa kasong libelo laban kay Senador Antonio Trillanes IV na pigilan itong makaalis ng bansa. Ayon kay Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra, nakatakdang dinggin bukas, December 7 ng Davao RTC ang mosyon ng DOJ na mag-isyu ng Hold Departure Order (HDO) laban sa senador. Nilinaw ni Guevarra na ang paghahain ng prosekusyon ng mosyon […]
(Eagle News)—ABSCBN executive Ces Drilon on Friday, Oct. 5, denied the allegations of her colleague Gretchen Fullido against her, saying she has “always been an advocate of women’s rights and women’s empowerment.” ” As a victim of sexual harassment once before, it is unthinkable for me to say what Gretchen Fullido alleges I did,” Drilon said. According to Drilon, “she was asked to testify in an internal, confidential investigation into Gretchen’s allegations and some of what I […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Sunday, Sept. 23, welcomed former Davao Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte’s filing of libel cases against him. According to Trillanes, it would be “an opportunity to call Polong as a hostile witness, so he would be compelled to show his tattoo on his back to prove that he is a member of a Chinese triad drug syndicate.” “It would also be an opportunity for me to have his bank accounts […]
Presidential son says Manases Carpio to charge the senator with libel, too By Earlo Bringas Eagle News Service Former Davao Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte has filed libel charges against Senator Antonio Trillanes IV. The charges filed before the Davao City Prosecutors Office on Thursday, Sept. 6, stem from what the presidential son said was Trillanes’ “defamatory publication, with malice, afterthought, and evil intent to malign, ridicule and harass me and my family during a teleradyo […]
(Eagle News)–Senate President Tito Sotto on Sunday, July 29, welcomed the indictment of blogger Cocoy Dayao for cyber-libel. “The case has been filed and now the court has spoken. Mr. Dayao should be made accountable,” Sotto said of the blogger behind the “Silent No More PH” posts. The Pasay Prosecutors Office indicted Dayao on July 13. Sotto filed the case against Dayao in November last year after the blogger called the senator and several others […]
(Eagle News)–The Pasay City Prosecutors Office has approved the filing of a libel case against Thinking Pinoy blogger RJ Nieto. This was after Associate Prosecution lawyer Honey Rose Delgado found the elements of libel under the Cybercrime Prevention Act were present in the post written by Nieto on Facebook in Oct. 2017, as alleged by Senator Antonio Trillanes IV. In the post, Nieto quoted US President Donald Trump as saying Trillanes was a “narco,” which […]
