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JUSTICE FOR 58: A SUMMARY OF THE AMPATUAN MASSACRE TRIAL

By the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) Freedom for Media, Freedom for All Network ON DEC. 19, 2019, Judge Jocelyn Solis-Reyes, presiding judge of Branch 221 of the regional trial court of Quezon City, will promulgate the ruling on the Ampatuan Massacre case, after over nine years...

Ampatuan Massacre Suspect Transferred to Heart Center

A Quezon City court granted the request of Zaldy Ampatuan, one of the primary accused in the killing of 58 people including 32 media workers in Maguindanao in 2009, to be transferred to the Philippine Heart Center (PHC) from a public hospital in Taguig to which he was brought...

PROLONGED AGONY: Looking Back at the 8 Years of the Ampatuan, Maguindanao Massacre

Eight years, zero conviction. This summarizes the 2017 update on the trial of the accused in the Ampatuan massacre of 2009. With more than 100 charged, even a dedicated branch of the court can only do so much. The magnitude of the trial necessarily imposes the slow pace....

Three Ampatuan Massacre Accused Acquitted

THE QUEZON City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 221 dismissed the charges against three accused in the Ampatuan massacre after the prosecution failed to prove their participation in the crime. In her nine-page order dated June 23, Judge Jocelyn Solis-Reyes granted the demurrers to evidence filed by accused Kominie...

Court Denies Unsay Ampatuan’s Bail Petitions

SEVEN YEARS after the trial began, the Quezon City Regional Trial Court finally resolved to deny last May 30 the bail petitions filed by the main accused in the Nov. 23, 2009 Ampatuan Massacre. In a 48-page resolution, Branch 221 Judge Jocelyn Solis-Reyes said there was strong evidence that...

CA upholds grant of Ampatuan Massacre accused’s bail petition

THE COURT of Appeals affirmed the grant of bail to Sajid Islam Ampatuan, one of the primary suspects in the November 23, 2009 killing of 58 persons in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao. Sajid Islam was released on bail in January 2015. The 16th Division of CA in Manila denied last...

QC court denies massacre suspect’s bail petitions

The Quezon City court hearing the murder cases against the alleged perpetrators of the November 23, 2009 Ampatuan (Maguindanao) Massacre denied the petitions for bail of another primary suspect.

Accused brains of 2009 massacre dies of liver failure

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – The patriarch of the Ampatuan clan, one of the primary accused in the 23 November 2009 massacre of 58 persons, died of liver failure at a hospital in Quezon City last 17 July 2015.

Court allows hospitalization of accused principal in 2009 massacre

CMFR/PHILIPPINES - Branch 221 of the Quezon City Regional Trial Court temporarily allowed last June 10 the confinement of Andal Ampatuan Sr. at the National Kidney Transplant Institute due to the seriousness of his condition. The court had earlier allowed Andal Sr. to be brought to the Philippine General...

Court denies massacre principal suspect Andal Sr.’s bail petition

The Regional Trial Court of Quezon City has denied Andal Ampatuan Sr.’s petition for bail after it established the participation of the clan patriarch in the 23 November 2009 massacre of 58 persons, including 32 journalists and media workers. The journalists were covering the filing of the Certificate of...