Drug suspect detained for five years without case
By Tetch Torres-Tupas
Lawyers of a drug suspect urged the Court of Appeals to nullify the case filed against their client more than five years after she was arrested.
Lawyers of a drug suspect urged the Court of Appeals to nullify the case filed against their client more than five years after she was arrested.
A man accused of holding his model girlfriend for almost three weeks
against her will was charged with serious illegal detention with rape and serious physical injuries at the Manila Regional Trial Court.
A father whose son has been in military detention in Samar for the past 22 months has asked the Department of Justice (DOJ) why it has not issued a resolution on his petition for a review of his son’s allegedly illegal arrest and detention.
A jobless man ended up behind bars in Quezon City after he allegedly kept his teenaged lover away from her family for nearly two weeks.
THE 66-year-old American businesman accused of rape and illegal detention was visited by US Consular Office chief John Domingo in the Talisay City Jail last Friday.
Calling their excuses “flimsy,” the Court of Appeals (CA) has denied the bid of the lawyers of fugitive retired Gen. Jovito Palparan and two other military officers for an extension of their time to question their prosecution in connection with the disappearance of two University of the Philippines (UP) coeds.
The maid who has accused her employers of maltreating her until she went blind said the couple she served conspired to lock her up in their home for close to three years.
Military officers cannot dodge responsibility for having committed immoral acts by saying that they were “just following orders.”
After a monthlong break, the kidnapping trial of fugitive Major General Jovito Palparan and three other soldiers will resume this month.
The wife of missing environmental activist and radio host Joey Estriber has urged the government to find Jovito Palparan and make the fugitive retired major general reveal what he knows about the abduction of her husband.
There is no shoot-to-kill order against fugitive retired Major General Jovito Palparan as the government wants him alive, Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo said here Thursday.
Judge Teodora Gonzales of the Regional Trial Court in Malolos, Bulacan, received on Tuesday documents proving that lawyer Jesus Santos was authorized to represent retired Major General Jovito Palparan.
The fugitive Jovito Palparan may be under the protection of Armed Forces personnel and business owners, and President Benigno Aquino III should order the military to help arrest him, an international human rights group said Wednesday.
