Breaking News, Latest Philippines Headlines, World, Entertainment, Politics, Weather & Video News
BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand’s billionaire former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra received a royal pardon shortening his parole by two weeks, his lawyer said on Saturday, a day after his daughter was elected premier by parliament. Thaksin has been at the heart of a two-decade power struggle between the Shinawatra family and its allies on the one hand, and, on the other, a nexus of royalists, generals and old-money families that have long wielded influence over Thai […]
LIMA, Dec 7, 2023 (AFP) – Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, 85, was freed from prison on Wednesday after a court reinstated a pardon of his 25-year sentence for crimes against humanity. Fujimori, who served from 1990 to 2000 and is now in poor health, left the Barbadillo prison in Lima and was greeted by his children Keiko, a three time failed presidential hopeful, and Kenji, a businessman. The elder Fujimori wore nasal tubes providing […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump on Wednesday pardoned 73 people, including his former aide Steve Bannon and other allies, just hours before he was due to leave office. “President Donald J. Trump granted pardons to 73 individuals and commuted the sentences of an additional 70 individuals,” the White House said in a statement. The president and his children were not on the list. Bannon was granted clemency having been charged […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned a former soldier convicted of murder and a Green Beret charged with killing a suspected Taliban bomb-maker, defying warnings that the move would be an abuse of the powers afforded him under the US Constitution. Trump dismissed a second degree murder conviction against Army First Lieutenant Clint Lorance, who is six years into a 19-year term for ordering soldiers in 2012 to fire […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Sunday, Sept. 8, said there was “no provocation” when President Rodrigo Duterte said no one should question his authority to pardon criminals. In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said Duterte was merely “educating the public of the nature of the power of pardon.” “The framers of the Constitution gave the pardoning power to the President as a discretionary and absolute power. Nobody can –and should –question that power,” Panelo said. […]
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — Myanmar’s president on Tuesday announced pardons for more than 8,500 prisoners, including three dozen jailed in political cases, as part of an annual amnesty marking the country’s traditional new year. President Win Myint, who took office last month after his predecessor suddenly resigned, said the pardons would be granted on humanitarian grounds during the Buddhist new year festival known as Thingyan. The amnesty was extended mostly to drug offenders, as […]
by Roberto Cortijo Agence France-Presse LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Alberto Fujimori, Peru’s pardoned former president who was until recently serving a 25-year sentence for human rights abuses, was discharged from hospital Tuesday after receiving treatment for cardiac arrhythmia. Fujimori, 79, was hospitalized at the end of last year and treated for various ailments. “He is under careful medical observation,” his doctor Alejandro Aguinaga told AFP. Aguinaga said Fujimori was given a Holter monitor that records “everything that […]
LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Peru’s jailed ex-president Alberto Fujimori, who was serving a 25-year sentence for corruption and rights abuses, has been pardoned on humanitarian grounds, the presidency announced on Sunday. “The president of the republic… has decided to grant a humanitarian pardon to Mr Alberto Fujimori and seven other people in similar condition,” it said in a statement. Fujimori was transferred from his cell to a clinic Saturday suffering from low blood pressure […]
LIMA, Peru (AFP) — The UN’s top human rights official on Tuesday suggested Peru should seek international medical opinion before any pardon is given to disgraced ex-president Alberto Fujimori. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein spoke to a Peruvian human rights legislative committee amid concerns that Fujimori, 79, who is jailed for human rights abuses, might win a pardon due to serious health problems. President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has spoken publicly about the […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday reiterated he wanted Supt. Marvin Marcos reinstated, noting that he would “never ever” allow any member of the government security force to go to jail “for doing his duty and obeying” his order. “E ngayon si Marcos suspended. E di suspended siya. Tapos tapos na suspension, sabi ko ibalik niyo sa trabaho yang mama. Wala naman yan nun e. He was too faraway. He wasn’t part of […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte promised to bring home to the country Overseas Filipino Workers who had been granted clemency in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Bahrain. There are currently 5000 OFWs who received pardon from the Middle East and are scheduled to be repatriated to the Philippines. The President went to the Middle East for a round of official visits.
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has granted absolute pardon to controversial actor Robin Padilla upon the recommendation of the Board of Parole under the Department of Justice. In a dinner with the reporters yesterday at the Malacanang palace, President Duterte confirmed this, saying that with his absolute pardon, Padilla’s political and civil rights will be fully restored. “I just granted pardon in favor of Robin Padilla kasi yung original pardon niya hindi sinabi yung full restoration ng […]
