The family of slain Palawan environmentalist journalist Dr. Gerry Ortega said that there might have been an attempt to cover up the alleged suicide of a key witness in the Ortega murder case.
As doubts hovered over the legitimacy of the Jan. 6 shooting in Atimonan town in Quezon, the man said to be the main target of the bloody police operation was buried in Calamba City on Tuesday.
The Court of Appeals (CA) has invalidated the panel that Justice Secretary Leila de Lima had formed to reinvestigate the January 2011 murder in Palawan of environmentalist and radio commentator Dr. Gerry Ortega, raising the possibility the murder charges and arrest warrants against former Palawan Gov. Joel Reyes and his brother may eventually be quashed.
Palawan Gov. Abraham Mitra mobilized employees of the provincial capitol to support ex-governor Joel T. Reyes, who was recommended charged by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for masterminding the murder of environmentalist and broadcaster Gerry Ortega.
The timing made it doubly painful. Outrage greeted the justice department’s dismissal of criminal charges against a former provincial governor and five others tagged in the killing of Palawan broadcaster and environmentalist Gerry Ortega, a ruling that came out a day after another media person was murdered. “To accept the Department of Justice (DoJ) resolution [...]
