To ensure convictions by the time he steps down from office in 2016, President Aquino has ordered state prosecutors handling the case to oppose the dilatory tactics being employed by the alleged masterminds of the 2009 Maguindanao massacre, Malacañang said on Monday.
Former police Senior Supt. Cezar Mancao is an example of our twisted system of justice: From a principal witness in a twin murder case to an accused in the same case.
Yet another government body will take up the case of missing activist Jonas Burgos, son of the late press freedom icon Jose Burgos Jr.
Negotiations between thousands of Typhoon “Pablo” survivors and social welfare officials ended on Wednesday with an agreement to review the list of relief beneficiaries.
A bill to compensate abuse victims of martial law with a P10-billion fund is attracting scammers yet again.
Militant farmer groups on Sunday assailed the “extraordinary power” Malacañang had over the multibillion-peso coconut levy fund.
The Office of the Ombudsman has reversed a six-month suspension on Customs Police Major Ramon M. Policarpio after investigation showed that the sexual harassment charge filed by a masseuse against him was fabricated.
Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin says fugitive ex-Army Major General Jovito Palparan is destroying the image of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
Retired Army General Jovito Palparan Jr. asked the Court of Appeals to stop the Bulacan Regional Trial Court from proceeding with his trial in connection with his alleged involvement in the disappearance of two University of the Philippines students six years ago.
Why does a Police Officer 1 (PO1), the lowest rank in the police hierarchy, have to be a college graduate when all he should do is patrol the streets?
As of June 2012, the Families of Victims of Involuntary Disappearance (FIND) had documented 1,838 cases of enforced disappearances since the Marcos regime. Of this number, 1,147 are still missing, 435 have surfaced alive, and 256 were found dead.
After a campaign over two decades by human rights activists, Congress finally passed a bill principally directed against state agencies that would outlaw acts that result in disappearances, allow the prosecution of perpetrators even though their victims remain missing and impose a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.
Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago castigated erstwhile Deputy Director General Carlos Gadapan of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) during a Senate inquiry, saying the President has the prerogative to fire presidential appointees in whom he has lost confidence.
