We will not surrender our freedomsToday, Independence Day, we renew our pledge to serve the people, to continue speaking truth to power, and to guard and defend freedom of the press and of expression from all threats.Read More Covering the PandemicRead more Covering the CoViD-19 Pandemic Suspended ARMM governor requests medical check-up SUSPENDED AUTONOMOUS Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) governor Zaldy Ampatuan asked the court last 5 July, 2011 to allow him to undergo a medical examination in a private hospital. The request came six days after a member of the Andal Ampatuan Sr. household staff  testified that Andal Sr. was... Court handling Ampatuan Massacre declared a “special court” The Supreme Court of the Philippines named the branch of court handling the Ampatuan Massacre case as a “special court” last 28 June 2011. In a 28 June 2011 resolution, the Supreme Court en banc granted the petition filed by the National Press Club of the Philippines (NPC) and Alyansa... Court denies motions to exclude prosecution witnesses CMFR/PHILIPPINES – The Regional Trial Court (RTC) judge hearing the Ampatuan (Maguindanao) Massacre case denied last 1 July 2011 the primary accused’s motions protesting the inclusion in the prosecution’s list of witnesses other accused persons and a confessed participant in the 23 November 2009 incident in which 58 people... Supreme Court allows live coverage of Ampatuan massacre trial CMFR/PHILIPPINES – The Philippine Supreme Court has partially granted the request of media and private complainants to allow live coverage of the trial of 196 persons including members of the Ampatuan clan for the November 23, 2009 murder of 58 persons, among whom 32 were journalists and media workers.... Supreme Court’s guidelines for live coverage of the Maguindanao Massacre trial 1. The audio-visual recording of the Ampatuan massacre cases may be made both for documentary and for transmittal to live radio and television broadcasting. 2. Media entities must file with the trial court a letter of application, manifesting that they intend to broadcast the audio-visual recording of the proceedings….... Ampatuan (Maguindanao) Massacre trial update: Andal Sr. asks court to arraign him CMFR/PHILIPPINES – The patriarch of the Ampatuan clan has asked the Quezon City court trying him and 195 others to arraign him in the next hearing. In an 18 May 2011 motion, Andal Ampatuan Sr. requested through his counsel that he be arraigned on 25 May 2011. The hearings... Ampatuan (Maguindanao) Massacre Trial Update: Accused in Ampatuan Massacre asks court to dismiss charges against him SAJID ISLAM Ampatuan, one of the accused in the November 2009 killing of 57 (58 if missing Reynaldo Momay is included) persons including 32 journalists and media workers in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao, has filed through his counsel an Omnibus Motion to dismiss the charges against him. The former acting... Ampatuan (Maguindanao) Trial Update: Court grants medical consultation for Andal Sr. THE QUEZON CITY Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 221 granted last 2 May 2011 the request of one of the principal accused in the 23 November 2009 Ampatuan Multiple Murder case for a medical check-up by the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) physician. Andal Ampatuan Sr. filed... Slain journalist’s widow faces contempt charges A widow of an Ampatuan (Maguindanao) massacre victim and a director of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) are facing possible contempt charges for publicly criticizing Court of Appeals (CA) justices before whom a petition connected to the Ampatuan multiple murder case is pending. The CA... Ampatuan Massacre Trial Update: DOJ revamps its prosecution panel NEW government prosecutors have been assigned to continue the prosecution of the multiple murder case  against Unsay Ampatuan and 194 others for the killing of 57 persons in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao last Nov. 23, 2009.  (Only 57 counts of murder have been filed, since the body of the presumed... « Previous1…67891011Next »
