Tag: Peninsula Manila siege

Trillanes sued for allegedly inciting to sedition

(Eagle News) — Labor Undersecretary Jacinto Paras on Friday, Sept. 14, sued Senator Antonio Trillanes IV for inciting to sedition. Paras filed the charges before the Pasay Prosecutors’ Office. The charges stem from Trillanes’ remarks against President Rodrigo Duterte, which Paras said incited the people to overthrow the government. In his previous speeches, Trillanes called Duterte “corrupt, incompetent, evil, obsessed and insecure,” among others. This is the third time in 10 months Paras filed charges […]

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Trillanes won’t leave Senate until final court ruling on Proclamation 572 is issued

(Eagle News) — Senator Antonio Trillanes IV will remain holed up in the Senate so far. According to Trillanes, this was after his lawyers advised him to wait for the courts’ “final resolution” on Proclamation 572 that declared the amnesty granted to him for the Oakwood mutiny and the Peninsula Manila siege in 2003 and 2007, respectively, void ab initio. Trillanes has questioned the proclamation before the Supreme Court, which, however, junked his request for […]

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