(1st UPDATE) Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra also asks the High Court to remand the case to a lower court for continuation of the trial on the case's merits
The Court of Appeals says the government's motion failed to present any new and substantial argument that would justify the reconsideration of the earlier ruling
“This PILC's fourth grant of a demurrer to evidence in an illegal possession case against a person in the peace process, a pattern that debunks what police want us to believe. What's true: peace consultants are not armed and dangerous!”
Under President Rodrigo Duterte, the wee hours of the morning have been filled not with calmness but with anxiety as government critics fear they may be the next targets of illegal arrests and even graver rights abuses.
Acting presidential spokesperson Martin Andanar (File photo) MANILA - Malacanang denounced on Thursday a global campaign to impose sanctions on President Rodrigo Duterte and other ranking Philippine officials for allegedly violating human rights. In a statement on Tuesday, the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP) announced that it has launched a campaign to impose sanctions on ranking officials who allegedly masterminded or took part in human rights violations. It is the first time any rights group is campaigning to enforce the Magnitsky Act, which authorizes the US government to sanction human rights violators globally by banning entry into the US and freezing their assets. Acting presidential spokesperson Martin Andanar dismissed the move as an effort to publicly "name and shame the Philippines before the international community." "It is baffling how it has come up with allegations of human rights violations of the Philippine government w