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By Earlo Bringas Eagle News Service (Eagle News) – Senator Antonio Trillanes IV spent the night inside the Senate building after news about the voiding of his amnesty came out Tuesday, September 4. Trillanes maintained that he will stay at the Senate premises until his lawyers have completed and filed the legal remedies needed to prove the validity of the amnesty granted to him by former President Benigno Aquino III. About 20 of his supporters […]
(Eagle News) – Senator Antonio Trillanes IV spoke at the Senate session hall Tuesday afternoon, September 3, to play previous news videos that showed him beating the deadline for application of amnesty in 2010. He claimed that the facts he presented and video showed him making a personal appearance for his amnesty application during the administration of former President Benigno Aquino III. He also showed in the video screen Aquino’s Proclamation No. 75, “as […]
(Eagle News) – Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III said that the protection from arrest given to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV is only while he is inside the Senate premises, but he is free to go out if he so wishes. At the same time, Sotto said that President Rodrigo Duterte has the prerogative to void or revoke a previous grant of amnesty. “It is within the power of the President,” he said. He […]
(Eagle News)—Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Tuesday, Sept. 4, denied the revocation of the amnesty granted to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV had anything to do with his opposition to the administration. In a press briefing, Guevarra said “it’s a matter of compliance with the law.” “This is a matter which is provided in the Constitution itself. When the chief executive grants clemency, all the requirements must be naturally complied with,” Guevarra said. In revoking the […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Antonio Trillanes IV said that he had been assured by the Senate leadership that no arrests will be made while he is inside the Senate premises, as he was placed “under the custody” of Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III. “Basically I was placed in the custody of the Senate President until my lawyers file the necessary petition in the Supreme Court,” he told reporters shortly after emerging from a […]
(Eagle News)—–Opposition senator Bam Aquino on Tuesday, Sept. 3, slammed President Rodrigo Duterte’s revocation of the amnesty granted to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, calling it a “clear oppression” of members of the opposition. “Clearly irregular itong nangyayri. Probably illegal and unconstitutional,” he said. According to Aquino, the amnesty granted to Trillanes in 2010 has the concurrence of Congress. “Di pa ako nakakarinig ng amnesty na nirevoke. It might be the first time in our history,” […]
(Eagle News) — Members of the Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group are seen on guard outside the Senate building, and inside the Senate building on Tuesday, Sept. 3, after President Rodrigo Duterte has revoked and voided the grant of amnesty given to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV. Trillanes, on Tuesday, said that he is also ready to be arrested and insisted on the validity of the amnesty granted to him by former […]
(Eagle News)—Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Tuesday, Sept. 4, defended President Rodrigo Duterte’s decision to revoke the amnesty granted to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV. According to Guevarra, “the matter of taking a look at whether amnesty granted is valid or not is something that can be done at any time..” He said this was “because probably you’ve seen from the proclamation if that grant of amnesty is declared to be void then it can be […]
(Eagle News) – Senator Antonio Trillanes IV said he would “not resist arrest” and would be willing to be incarcerated again while he is exhausting all legal means to prove that the grant of amnesty to him by former President Benigno Aquino III was valid. Speaking to reporters, Trillanes claimed the action of President Rodrigo Duterte to void his amnesty was a “case of political persecution.” He insisted he had applied for amnesty and had […]
(Eagle News)—-Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Tuesday, Sept. 3, maintained he had complied with the minimum requirements for the amnesty granted to him by then-President Benigno Aquino III, saying his was a “clear case of political persecution.” “Absolutely complied lahat yan.Mga kaso sa civil courts nadismiss yan..,” he said. Asked if he had applied for the amnesty in the first place, he said: “Di ka naman bibigyan ng amnesty kung wala kang application.” “Maliwanag yun. […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has voided the amnesty granted by former President Benigno Aquino III to opposition Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, “effective immediately,” saying he had not complied with the “minimum requirements” for such an amnesty. The President, through Proclamation No. 572, was dated Aug. 31, 2018 and was signed by the President and by Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea. Citing Section 19 Article 7 of the Philippine Constitution, Duterte said that “the grant […]
(Eagle News) — Solicitor General Jose Calida and his family have asked the Supreme Court to stop Senator Antonio Trillanes IV from conducting his own probe into their security agency’s contracts with the government. In seeking a temporary restraining order or a permanent injunction on the inquiry which starts on Aug. 16, Calida, his wife Milagros and children Josef, Michelle, and Mark Jorel said such a probe into Vigilant Investigative and Security Agency’s contracts will result in […]
