Tag: Petitions of elderly

SC refers petition for release of detainees amid COVID-19 pandemic to RTCs

(Eagle News)–The Supreme Court has ordered the regional trial courts  to conduct proceedings for the possible release of inmates who sought for their  temporary liberty on humanitarian grounds amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In giving the order, the High Court acted on the urgent petition filed by  Dionisio Almonte, Ireneo Atadero Jr., Alexander Ramonita Birondo, Winona Marie Birondo, Rey Claro Casambre, Ferdinand Castillo, Francisco Fernandez Jr., Renante Gamara, Vicente Ladlad, and several others, treating such as […]