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Police disrupting rally preparations at Luneta

“This is clearly intended to sabotage the protest, discourage people from joining the rally, and suppress the demand to make Marcos Jr accountable for the large scale corruption in the government,” BAYAN said.
‘Allocables’ are the new pork and Sandro Marcos and Martin Romualdez are the pork barrel kings

In this report, we unlock the mystery of “allocable” funds, the secret formula no one understands, and the machinations behind the supposedly non-allocable items in the national budget.
Dutertes eat crow in The Hague

By banking on humanitarian grounds to win Duterte’s interim release, the defense counsel failed to see that the accused faces charges of crimes against humanity and in the history of the ICC, there has never been an instance when anyone similarly charged was granted interim release.
‘Bloom Where You Are Planted’ subjects receive threats, surveillance

“The production team strongly condemns these attacks which only prove the State’s fright against the film’s message that activism is not terrorism,” the film’s producers said.
Victims’ kin rejoice over Duterte’s continuing imprisonment

“Nagpapasalamat kami sa Appeals Chamber sa pakikinig sa aming panaghoy para sa hustisya. Dapat manatili sa kulungan si Duterte habang dinidinig ang kaso laban sa kanya,” Llore Pasco, who lost two sons, said.
People vs Team Impunity

“Habang pinababaluktot [tayo] para magkasya sa kumot, nagtatampisaw sa nakaw na buwis ng taumbayan ang mga kurakot – si Bongbong Marcos, Sara Duterte, mga senador, kongresista, matataas na opisyal sa gubyerno, at kanilang mga kasabwat na private contractors.”
Bakit 99% na siguradong hindi pagbibigyan ng pansamantalang kalayaan si Duterte

Dahil sa matibay na factual at legal findings ng Pre-Trial Chamber, walang dahilan para baliktarin ang desisyon nila noong September na hindi i-grant ang interim release. Sa madaling salita, walang batayan para palayin si Duterte.
On PNP’s filing of charges vs a campus journalist

“How low can the police go? Public funds meant to aid the PNP are being used to harass youth leaders who staunchly resist the biggest corruption scandal brought about by the Marcos-Duterte administration. If our taxes are spent this way, it only proves the long-standing history of the police serving the corrupt system from which they benefit.”
BAYAN asks: Why is Marcos Jr. shielded in corruption probes?

“This does not appear to be a mere oversight or lapse of judgement but a calculated act to divert public attention from principal schemers, offer up fall guys to appease the public, and whitewash the system that breeds corruption in order to maintain it,” Palatino observed.