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By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) -A Hong Kong court on Thursday night sentenced a former editor to jail for 21 months and immediately released another after they had earlier been found guilty of conspiring to publish seditious articles in a ruling that has prompted an international outcry. In a landmark case about media freedom, Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam of the now-defunct Stand News media outlet were convicted last month – the first time […]
By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) – A Hong Kong man on Monday pleaded guilty to sedition for wearing a T-shirt with a protest slogan, becoming the first person convicted under the city’s new national security law passed in March. Chu Kai-pong, 27, pleaded guilty to one count of “doing with a seditious intention an act”. Under the new security law, the maximum sentence for the offence has been expanded from two years to seven […]
HONG KONG, Nov 29, 2023 (AFP) – Hong Kong authorities charged a 26-year-old man with sedition on Wednesday after police allegedly found “seditious wording” on a shirt he wore and on flags in his possession. China has tightened its grip on Hong Kong after the finance hub was rocked by huge and sometimes violent pro-democracy protests in 2019. The following year Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law on the city to quell dissent. Local […]
(Eagle News) — Former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV is set to post this morning at the Quezon City Metropolitan Trial Court for his conspiracy to commit sedition case. Trillanes arrived earlier this morning at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3. He is expected to post the P10,000 bail at the Quezon City MTC. Judge Kristine Grace Suarez of the QC Metropolitan Trial Court Branch 138 earlier issued the warrants of arrest against Trillanes, […]
Robredo, others cleared in sedition case (Eagle News)–A Department of Justice panel has cleared Vice President Leni Robredo and other opposition figures of sedition but found probable cause to indict for conspiracy to commit sedition former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV and several others over an alleged plot to oust President Rodrigo Duterte. In its 57-page resolution, the DOJ panel also recommended for indictment Peter Joemel Advincula alias “Bikoy,” dismissed police official Eduardo Acierto, priest Albert […]
(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 […]
Panel says this is “without prejudice to respondents’ recourse” to bring issue before “proper forum” (Eagle News)–The Department of Justice special panel of prosecutors hearing the sedition charges filed against Vice President Leni Robredo and several others has junked some of the respondents’ motions to disqualify the Office of the Solicitor General as counsel of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, the acting complainant. In junking the motions in a 10-page order on Aug. 23, […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Leila de Lima has asked the Department of Justice panel hearing the sedition charges filed against her and several others to remove the Office of the Solicitor General as counsel for the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, the acting complainant. In seeking for the OSG’s removal in a 13-page motion filed on Aug. 14, De Lima said it is “illegal and improper” for Solicitor General Jose Calida to appear as the lawyer for […]
(Eagle News)–Lawyers Chel Diokno and Lorenzo Tañada III have asked the Department of Justice panel conducting a preliminary probe into the sedition charges filed against them and several others to stop the Office of the Solicitor General from representing the Philippine National Police, the complainant, and to sanction the OSG. In filing the omnibus motion that also sought to annul all previous actions of the OSG, Diokno and Tañada said the OSG misstated University of […]
Asks DOJ to allow her to reproduce CIDG “evidence” vs her first (Eagle News)–Vice President Leni Robredo has filed a motion urging the Department of Justice to defer the deadline for her submission of counteraffidavit pending her receipt of supposed evidence against her in the sedition case against her. In her motion for production and copying of evidence, Robredo urged the Department of Justice to direct the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation Group, which acts […]
