Migrante International said President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is being “heartless” for ignoring pleas for clemency for Mary Jane Veloso even after receiving thousands of petitions since 2024.
“KAPATID stresses that with no proven criminal intent and key elements of the prosecution’s theory dismantled, continued detention is legally and morally indefensible. Justice demands evidence, not conjecture,” Lim said.
Few Filipinos know that Quiapo, regarded as the center of Catholic fervor in Asia, was originally an Islamic community.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF), the Committee to Protect Journalists, and Free Press Unlimited nominated Cumpio, describing her “an icon of press freedom in the country.
“Senator-in-hiding” Bato de la Rosa is given added excuse to absent himself from work as the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has uploaded a lesser redacted version of the complaint that includes his name.
At Quiapo’s Quinta Market, squash blooms were selling at Php50 per bunch and had reportedly been more popular among older men. “They are buying them as romantic jokes to their wives,” a vendor explained.
The opposition lawmakers said the information bolsters earlier testimonies by undersecretary Bernardo as well as revelations by former legislator and erstwhile Marcos ally Elizalde Co about Marcos’ receipt of billions in kickbacks.
Political prisoners Vicente Ladlad and Adelberto Silva cited de Venecia’s role in the peace talks between themselves and the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP), saying the veteran politician significantly contributed to the process.
“We welcome this suspension and celebrate with the people of Dupax. Let this be our affirmation of the necessity of collective action–that protesting, organizing, and defending our rights yield results, and that the struggle of Indigenous Peoples is just,” Indigenous peoples’ rights advocates Katribu said.
Exhibit shows the loss and resistance against the nationwide operation that killed thousands of Filipinos, which Duterte admitted to having ordered as part of his so-called ‘peace and order program’
