BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Posted 6:50 p.m. Feb. 27, 2006 Four progressive party-list representatives – Satur Ocampo and Teddy Casiño of Bayan Muna (People First), Rafael Mariano of Anakpawis (Toiling Masses), and Liza Maza of Gabriela Women’s Party (GWP) who eluded arrest after a press conference of the House Minority bloc February 25 at the…
Day: February 27, 2006
Ka Bel, Capulong Walk Out of DOJ Inquest
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Posted 6:45 p.m. Feb. 27, 2006 Anakpawis Representative Crispin Beltran and his lawyer, Justice Romeo Capulong, walked out of the inquest proceedings for a new charge of rebellion filed against Beltran at the conference room of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) at noon today. Public Prosecutor Emmanuel Velasco of the…
KMU Leaders Arrested in Attempted Visit to Jailed Solon
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Posted 6:00 p.m. Feb. 27, 2006 Two leaders of the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU or May First Movement) were arrested this morning as they and close to a hundred members of the said labor federation trooped to Camp Crame, the national headquarters of the Philippine National Police (PNP). Arrested were Dennis…