“It will be a mini-trial. The full blown trial will happen in the Senate. This is to give ample opportunity to the complainants to present their witness and evidence per ground as well as for the respondent to reply,” Luistro said.
The ICC ruled in favor of Butuyan and Andress, saying Kaufman failed to show any reason to disqualify the Filipino lawyers as common legal representatives of victims of Duterte’s bloody war on drugs.
Bayan said the strike is a legitimate and necessary action as drivers and transport operators are the first to be directly affected by rising oil prices brought about by US and Israel’s war against Iran.
“[It is…] an insult to the millions of Filipinos who suffer the worst of the climate crisis while this administration treats environmental policy as a revolving door for its favorites,” the group KALIKASAN said.
KAPATID said it urged action by the DOJ “on humanitarian concerns affecting several political prisoners, including access to medicines and long-pending transfer requests.”
“Marcos’ amnesty program failed to deceive the Party, the masses and their revolutionary forces,” CPP chief information officer Marco Valbuena said.
The peso closed at ₱59.735 per US dollar on Friday, surpassing previous lows of ₱59.50 last March 9 and ₱59.425 last January.
The Kalipunan ng Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas (Katribu) in an urgent alert on Friday said Bangibang was arrested in Tarlac City and is currently detained in Tabuk City, Kalinga.
The country’s militant transport group Piston said it is temporarily abandoning its stance of no fare hikes and now demands an emergency increase of P5.0 increase in base fares until diesel prices are substantially reduced.
By the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism’s count, 32 of the 64 party-list representatives in the 20th Congress come from active political clans although the parties they belong to claim to represent the poor, farmers, and ordinary folk from their provinces.
