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Trillanes: Filing of kidnapping, serious illegal detention raps vs me a “clear case of harassment, persecution” by Duterte

(Eagle News)–Former Senator Antonio Trillanes described the filing of kidnapping with serious illegal detention charges against him a “clear case of harassment and persecution” by President Rodrigo Duterte. In a statement, Trillanes said he never met Guillerma Arcillas or Barrido, the acting complainant in the charges filed before the Department of Justice against him, priest Albert Alejo, lawyer Jude Sabio, a certain Sister Ling, and other Jane and John Does. Barrido, who surfaced at the […]

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Roque on claims Trillanes was being politically persecuted: What persecution? Everything went through the correct process

(Eagle News)—-What political persecution? Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque on Wednesday, Sept. 26, denied a Makati court’s order to have Senator Antonio Trillanes IV arrested was political persecution, saying everything “went through the correct process.” “It was decided by the courts and no one can dispute the integrity and independence of the courts in the Philippines,” Roque said in a television interview. According to Roque, in the first place, this was a “political gift” to Trillanes […]

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