(KARAPATAN / MANILA BULLETIN)
Elements of the Criminal Investigation and Detention Group (CIDG) arrested Dennise Velasco at about 3 a.m. for illegal possession of firearms and explosives when police served the search warrant in his house in Lagro, Quezon City.
Quezon City Executive Judge Cecilyn Burgos-Villavert issued the warrant to allow the police to search the house of Velasco. She is the same judge who issued search warrants that yielded the arrests of other activists in Bacolod and Manila last year.
Various groups confirmed the arrest of Velasco but claimed he was arrested on fake evidence because the guns and explosives seized from him were all planted.
(CIDG / MANILA BULLETIN)
Lady Ann Salem was arrested at around 9 a.m. after a raid in her condominium unit at Tower 3 of the Avida Towers located at the corner of EDSA and Reliance in Mandaluyong City. Also arrested during the operation was Rodrigo Esparago.
The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) reported that four .45 pistols, four grenades and various bullets were seized from the house of Salem when the search warrant was served.
Salem is reportedly an editor of the Manila Today and the communications officer of the global media group International Association of Women in Radio and Television.
Manila Today is reportedly a chapter of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP).
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