Despite orders, PNP refuses to free NDFP peace talks staff
“The police have been caught up in their own yarn of lies, which were starkly exposed under legal scrutiny,” Pastores said.
GRP arrests NDFP staff Alex and Nona Birondo
“Even after they argued that the warrant was outdated and showed the dismissal order, they were taken to Camp Caringal where the Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit and the District Special Operations Unit desperately scrambled to add charges,” PILC managing counsel Rachel Pastores said in a statement.
PNP putting words in Cardinal Tagle’s mouth, Sison says
He said he does not see Tagle as becoming an endorser of the localized “peace talks” being staged by the military and police.
Frank Fernandez and company transferred to civilian jail
Aside from its repeated refusal to allow PILC lawyers to visit the three, the Philippine Army also deliberately ignored an April 3 Commitment Order by the Branch 33 of the Sta. Cruz Court to transfer Fernandez, Lagtapon and Perez to a civilian jail facility.
No more talks with ‘deranged Duterte’–Sison
Sison also dismissed Duterte’s invitation for him to come home, saying his time is better spent on research, writing and publishing “without being distracted by back channel talks and flip-flops by the mentally, politically and morally deranged Duterte.”
Sison warns against Duterte’s ‘war panel’
Sison said the NDFP does not want to be baited into accepting a war panel of the Duterte regime, “whose purpose is merely to seek the impossible, such as the surrender of the revolutionary forces, especially the New People’s Army.”
NDFP’s Casambre ‘clandestinely’ transferred to ‘noisy’, ‘hot’ Bacoor jail
The BJMP (Bureau of Jail Management and Penology) administrator reportedly tried to give a positive impression during Casambre’s family’s first visit but Patricia was broken-hearted to note of the “intolerable noise and the oppressive heat that she would not wish on others.”
GRP now cracking down on friends and family of detained NDFP consultants — lawyer
“Both army and police officials must temper their braggadocio, not until their competence and intelligence catch up,” Pastores said.
Lawyers find Fernandez and companions in Laguna prosecutor’s office
After continuous seach throughout Metro Manila and Laguna province Sunday and Monday, lawyers from the Public Interest Law Center were finally able to talk to Fernandez, his wife Cleofe Lagtapon and Geann Perez at the Sta. Cruz provincial prosecutor’s office in the said province at around seven o’clock last night.
Philippine Army holding Frank Fernandez incommunicado
The NDFP said details of where Fernandez and companions are incarcerated are still unclear. “This poses grave danger to their health and lives. It is incumbent upon their custodial units to forthwith present Frank Fernandez and his companions to their relatives and lawyers in order for him to receive his medicines and assure that their rights and well-being are respected,” Agcaoili said.