While the judge ponders their previous bail petitions, Andal Ampatuan Sr. and two of his sons are asking a Quezon City court to allow them to post bail with respect to the 58th murder charge lodged against them in connection with the Maguindanao massacre.
A radio news stringer was shot dead inside a store he owned in the market place of Pio V. Corpus town in Masbate on Sunday, police said.
The New York Times bureau chief in Pakistan was expelled from the country early Sunday after being ordered to leave for unspecified “undesirable activities”.
Rodolfo Tanquis’ familiar voice filled the airwaves anew on Monday, two days after he walked out of prison on bail.
Rolando Tanquis was inside the announcer’s booth of dxFL FM on Friday morning as he was holding another edition of his radio program, “Isyu Karon,” when two policemen barged in and dragged him out and hauled him to the Dipolog City police office.
After almost 12 long years of court battle, a veteran journalist has been acquitted by a Quezon City court of libel case filed by former Southern Leyte Representative Aniceto Saludo.
Justice Secretary Leila De Lima on Monday said she is standing firm on her right to freedom of expression in the face of contempt suit filed against her by former Palawan governor Joel Reyes.
The lawyers of embattled former Palawan governor Mario Joel Reyes have asked the Court of Appeals to cite Justice Secretary Leila De Lima for indirect contempt following her public pronouncements accusing the appellate tribunal of partiality.
The Court of Appeals maintained its 2012 ruling nullifying the body that created to investigate the involvement of former Coron Mayor Mario Reyes in the death of broadcaster Gerry Ortega and reinstating the ruling of the first panel finding no probable cause to charge him with murder.
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has dismissed from service two of its employees allegedly involved in the escape of former Palawan Governor Joel Reyes and brother Coron, Palawan Mayor Mario Reyes.
Justice Secretary Leila De Lima on Monday drew a sharp rebuke from a lawyer for contradicting the Court of Appeals ruling on the case of former Palawan governor Joel Reyes and Coron Mayor Mario Reyes.
The Court of Appeals decision upholding a petition for certiorari and prohibition filed by former Palawan Governor Joel Reyes does not clear him of murder, the lawyer for Gerry Ortega’s family said.
The Court of Appeals nullified the body created to investigate the involvement of former Palawan Governor Joel Reyes in the death of broadcaster Gerry Ortega and set aside its ruling finding probable cause to charge Reyes and his brother of murder.
