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(Eagle News)–Senator Leila de Lima has argued the sedition complaint filed against her over the Ang Totoong Narco-list videos is “bereft of any imputation against her” in the first place, and should therefore be dismissed. In her counter-affidavit filed on Sept. 9, De Lima said in fact, her name appears “only once” in the complaint, in the enumeration of names, but “nowhere else in the body..” “Instead, the complaint inconsistently and vaguely attempts to lump […]
Seek P5 million each in actual and moral damages (Eagle News)–Peter Joemel Advincula is facing perjury charges over his claims in connection with the Ang Totoong Narco-list videos that became the basis for the filing of sedition charges against Vice President Leni Robredo and several others. The charges also for offering false testimony in evidence filed against Arnold Thomas Ibay were lodged by lawyers Chel Diokno, Lorenzo Tañada III and Theodore Te, who are seeking […]
(Eagle News)–Vice President Leni Robredo could not have met Peter Joemel Advincula and other opposition figures to plan the destabilization of the government on March 4 as claimed because she was in Bulacan to attend a series of events. This is according to Robredo herself, who filed her counter-affidavit to the sedition charges filed against her in connection with the Ang Totoong Narco-list videos against President Rodrigo Duterte’s family on Thursday, Aug. 29. According to […]
(Eagle News)–Three Catholic bishops who have been charged with sedition and others in connection with the Ang Totoong Narco-list videos have asked the Department of Justice to junk the same. This is based on the counter-affidavits separately filed by Novaliches Bishop Emeritus Teodoro Bacani Jr., Lingayen Archbishop Socrates Villegas and Caloocan Bishop Pablo Virgilio David before the Department of Justice special panel of prosecutors that is conducting a preliminary probe into the charges. The panel […]
VP a no-show, sends lawyer instead (Eagle News)–The Department of Justice special panel of prosecutors began its preliminary probe into the sedition charges filed against Vice President Leni Robredo and others on Friday, Aug. 9. This was a day after Robredo asked that the deadline for her submission of a counter-affidavit be delayed pending her receipt of the supposed evidence the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group has against her in connection with […]
(Eagle News)–Supporters of Vice President Leni Robredo on Friday, July 26, asked the Department of Justice to dismiss the sedition complaint filed against her over the Ang Totoong Narco-list videos against President Rodrigo Duterte’s family. In a letter to Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra, the group called Team Pilipinas said the charges were “just another attempt to silence the opposition” and were “baseless.” For this, they cited what they said was Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo’s remark […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Antonio Trillanes IV has branded as a ” clear act of political persecution and harassment” the charges filed against him and several others over the “Ang Totoong Narco-list” videos. In a statement issued hours after the charges were lodged before the Department of Justice, Trillanes said this was done by the Duterte administration “to stifle democratic dissent.” “Sana lang ay mag-isip nang malalim at hindi magpagamit sa pulitika ang mga DOJ prosecutors na […]
