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“A remorseless human rights violator like him doesn’t deserve a peaceful retirement. We will continue to fight impunity by working to make sure that active or retired generals who abuse their power like Sinas are put behind bars."
Published February 27, 2021, 12:28 PM
A trade union organizer, who was arrested last year and charged initially with illegal possession of firearms and ammunition and later with a non-bailable offense of illegal possession of explosives, has asked the Supreme Court (SC) to reverse a trial court order that dismissed his petition for release on the ground of mootness.
Dennise Velasco also asked the SC to order the Quezon City regional trial court (RTC) to resolve the merits of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
A writ of habeas corpus is a legal remedy availed of in cases of illegal or arbitrary detention.In his petition filed last Friday, Feb. 26, through his wife Diane Zapata, Velasco told the SC that “the purpose of the writ of habeas corpus is to look into the validity of the detention of the person whose liberty is alleged to be restrained.”
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Kin, colleagues slam move to keep 4 union organizers in jail
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Parang binuhusan ako ng malamig na tubig. (My enthusiasm was immediately put off) If you could just imagine the mental anguish that we feel because all along we thought we will be with him this Christmas.”
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
MANILA – Four union organizers could have spent their Christmas with their families if not for what their lawyers called as “maneuvers” by the police to prevent their supposed release on Dec. 23.
Katherine Panguban of the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) said that a release order was already issued by Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 220 for Dennise Velasco, Mark Ryan Cruz, Romina Astudillo and Jaymie Gregorio, Jr., four of what now is collectively called as HRDay7. While they were processing their release, however, an amend