Days after the acquittal of Good Shepherd Sr. Elenita Belardo and nine others in a perjury case, the Religious of the Good Shepherd of the Philippines-Japan issued a statement celebrating the acquittal.
A court in the Philippines cleared a Catholic missionary nun and several human rights activists of perjury charges that were filed by the country’s former
The Quezon City Metropolitan Trial Court has acquitted 10 human rights defenders belonging to Karapatan, Gabriela and Rural Missionaries of the Philip-pines of perjury in connection with a case filed by former national security adviser Hermogenes Esperon in 2019.
"Truth and justice prevailed today against liars and butcher such as former National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon and National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict."