Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 21:34:25 +0000
Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra expressed confidence that any legal challenge to President Rodrigo Duterte’s proclamation to extend martial law in Mindanao until the end of 2019 was “bound to fail.”
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 21:33:32 +0000
After losing in a Makati court, the Duterte administration will now bring its case to revive opposition Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV’s coup d’etat case for the 2003 Oakwood mutiny at the Court of Appeals (CA).
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Read moreCredit to Author: ROY NARRA| Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 04:49:14 +0000
THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on Thursday filed criminal cases against a former official and other personalities allegedly involved in the smuggling of P11-billion worth of “shabu” before the…READ
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 05:54:48 +0000
MANILA, Philippines —Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Wednesday stressed that martial law declaration in Mindanao was “dictated by circumstances” and was not meant to be the government’s new policy to address rebellion in the region.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 03:31:38 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Wednesday said there is no reason to doubt the truthfulness of military and police reports on the security situation in Mindanao.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 09:56:13 +0000
The DOJ has asked a court to discharge as state witness Marcelo Adorco, former security escort and driver of drug dealer Kerwin Espinosa.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 21:34:39 +0000
Sen. Antonio Trillanes may have the fresh warrants of arrest issued against him by a Davao City court already lifted, but the Department of Justice (DOJ) said he might need to put on hold his scheduled travel to Europe on Tuesday.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2018 21:04:07 +0000
The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) has failed to secure the indictment of 15 employees of a gaming firm after the Department of Justice (DOJ) shot down the illegal gambling case filed against them by the National Bureau of Investigation.
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Senator Risa Hontiveros thinks the arrest order versus Rappler’s Maria Ressa was the Duterte admin’s attempt to “muzzle the media into fear.”
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President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the deployment of additional troops to different provinces to suppress “sporadic acts of violence.”
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