The Liberal Party is determined to continue to fight for human rights and freedom despite formidable odds following the human righs award given to its partymate Senator Leila de Lima.
Of the various promises that President Rodrigo Duterte made during the campaign season, Senator Leila de Lima believes he has only fulfilled two: one of which is put her in jail.
Senator Leila de Lima should have been freed already had she only been charged with direct bribery, former socioeconomic planning secretary Winnie Monsod said.
More than a month since his release on bail from jail, Sen. Jinggoy Estrada exchanged “pleasantries” with his half-brother Sen. JV Ejercito during a recent chance encounter at the airport.
Former President Benigno Aquino III has opted to pay his last respects to King Bhumibol Adulyadej at the Royal Thai Embassy in Makati instead of attending the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ change of command ceremony.
Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez wondered why Senator Leila De Lima is detained at the Philippine National Police Custodial Center at Camp Crame in Quezon City.
Senator Manny Pacquiao on Tuesday urged the camp of his detained colleague, Sen. Leila de Lima to just accept the Supreme Court’s decision junking her petition effectively seeking her release from jail.
Former senator Jinggoy Estrada has claimed that he was a victim of an alleged extortion attempt by an investigator from the Office of the Ombudsman in 2013.
Senator Leila de Lima’s dilemmas are not about to end anytime soon.
President Rodrigo Duterte has chosen not to comment on the Sandiganbayan’s decision to grant bail to former senator Jinggoy Estrada for his plunder and graft cases in connection with the pork barrel scam.
